I’d offer a mild defense of Eisenhower (whom I preferred would not to have been the nominee in 1952, with my endorsement going to Taft/MacArthur). I don’t believe even he had any idea that Earl Warren would be anything other than the establishment status quo type that had marked his political career (hence a “don’t rock the boat” type on SCOTUS). Unlike Ford, who never regretted, and was indeed proud of, his appointment of the odious leftist Stevens, Ike did regret elevating the White male Angela Davis to Chief Justice.
Ike on Warren & Brennan: “I made two mistakes, and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court.”
I am betting that you would agree with me that we don’t need any more “mistakes” on SCOTUS and that Romney is likely to make nothing but “mistakes” in appointments to SCOTUS and other courts and that the Republican senators will break out their pom poms and miniskirts for any “mistake” he makes and make believe that they are other than “mistakes” while they might stop Obozo appointments just because he is not a GOP monarch, i.e. Obozo’s communist social revolutionaries will be opposed as Romney’s communist social revolutionaries will not.