He said I should remember that the liberals were placed there by Republicans.
Therefore, especially in the case of Sandra Day O'Conner, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Handwringing about "we didn't know how they'd turn out" is all lies and political posturing to keep knifing their base in the back.
They knew. Count on it. They knew.
I would disagree with this point. I think many (though certainly not all) who go to work for the government in Washington D.C. go there with the best of intentions. But I think the longer one stays inside the Beltway, the less in touch these people are with the rest of the U.S. In the case of elitists like the SC judges, they no doubt hobnob at parties that are dominated by liberals and moderates, and I think over time they replace their belief system with that of the dominant Washington culture that is sadly very liberal at this time.
This phenomenon happens not only with SC justices, but also with Congress critters and bureaucrats. In the case of SC justices and our elected officials, the only method I can think of to reign in this behavior is to enact term limits on those officials. These officials could stay in D.C. as long as they like, of course, but term limits would at least take care of the creeping socialism problem, since none of them would be in office long enough to do much damage.