Eh, I don’t know about that. I don’t think anyone thought Roberts would turn out the way he did.
Frankly, I think somebody has something on Roberts. Live boy or dead girl type of thing, knowwhadimean?
I think that too. He had to adopt...
I thought he illegally adopted his kids from Ireland.
A couple of thoughts.
First, I remember well the day here at FR when Roberts was nominated. A LOT Of us here were like “WTF?”. Who is this guy? We were VERY worried that GWB had picked someone who was not really a proven conservative. As it turns out, those of us here who are amateurs, unlike experts like Cruz and the other legal elite (I like Cruz by the way), were wrong. I recall that Ann Coulter was basically with us, the skeptics.
Also...with regards to your second point, Roberts is pretty obviously gay. He also did a lot of pro bono work as a lawyer in DC for gay rights. This is something that GWB 1) knew and didn’t care, or 2) didn’t know but should have (see the previous point).
Roberts is not as bad as Souter. Not even close. But he changed his vote on obamacare b/c they trotted out the file. It may not be JUST that he’s gay. It could be something else, but yeah, they got the goods on him.