And many Freepers ideological intransigence got us Elena Kagan and the Wise Latina. What’s your point?
Based on his appointments while governor of Massachusetts and his overall political squishiness, it is unlikely Myth would have appointed anyone that much better. He would have gone with the path of least resistance and nominated someone who the Democrats would have praised and conservatives hated and who would have "grown" in office to become a regular vote with the liberal wing of the USSC.