I voted against Lurch in 2004 and Obama in 2008/2012, but now I have very little praise for GWB, McCain or Romney. Lurch probably would have nominated somebody much worse than Roberts to SCOTUS. I can’t remember any sane nominees from any dem POTUS in the last 50 years.
No good SCOTUS nominee since Byron White in 1962, but he was expected to be a good “liberal” jurist. I’m sure it surprised everyone that he turned out to be center-right. Had JFK known that, it’s unlikely he’d have been put on the bench.
I similarly voted against Lurch and Zero, and also share your (now) disdain for Shrub, who turned out to be a total phony. McQueeg only got my vote solely because of Palin, as I expected the stress of the job to kill him quickly in office (of course, as it turned out, he was the explicitly chosen designated loser/ringer for Zero).
Everyone who has been on FR since 2006 knows my absolute disdain for Willard the Rat, and my ringing the alarm bell about him since. That was the first time (2012) I voted third-party for President (for Virgil Goode over the two evils). Willard’s sole job for 4 Presidential elections in a row was to ensure the Demonrats won the office (2008, 2012 as that year’s designated ringer, 2016 with his recruitment of Egg McMuffin to take votes from Trump, and being a part of the bipartisan treasonous Derp State theft in 2020).
I doubt Miss Lake’s choices for President and her agenda in some of those years dovetailed with either yours or mine. She needs to be more open about it.