As for Mary Ellen’s fear that a president Obama would be beholden to Republicans, I honestly don’t think she has anything to worry about on that account. I can pretty much guarantee that no Republican would want anything to do with any Supreme Court appointment that Obama would make. Certainly no conservative would.

Second, I listed only Supreme Court Justices appointed by Republican presidents beginning with Richard M. Nixon, since these are the only ones who might have been and were expected by conservatives to have been conservative votes on the Court. Needless to say, Justices appointed by Democratic Presidents were not disappointments to conservatives because, since the New Deal era, no conservative has ever expected anything but a liberal appointee from a Democratic president. In this, they have rarely ever been disappointed.

Your last comment is very interesting and only one reason I’m voting for McCain. From the track-record of Republican appointed judges, chances are better than 40% that we’ll wind up with judges that disappoint Conservatives, even if McCain gets elected. Check it out!

Nixon gave us:
Warren E. Burger, a solid conservative;
Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade, who, though starting out very conservative, took a sharp turn to the left thereafter. The man deserves every expression of opprobrium ever cast in his direction by conservatives;
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., a distinctly moderate Justice (for which, read “a swing vote on the bench”, for which, read “hasn’t a principled bone in his judicial body”). Bleh!
William H. Rehnquist, a solid conservative who, nevertheless, voted to uphold Roe v. Wade — disappointing on that note but, in general, one of the good guys from a conservative point of view.

Ford gave us:
John Paul Stevens, disappointingly liberal.

Reagan gave us:
Sandra Day O’Connor, another swing vote on the court without a principled bone in her body. Invented the most vague, least helpful standards in the history of the court. Unfortunately, the liberals went along with her on her merry way. Hard to call her either liberal or conservative. She was both and she was neither, depending upon her whims of the moment.
Antonin Scalia, it’s hard to beat Wikipedia’s “Widely regarded as the intellectual anchor of the Court’s conservative wing”.
Anthony Kennedy, is fairly swingy and can surprise/disappoint conservatives at times but has ruled mostly with the conservatives on the court.

G. H. W. Bush gave us:
David H. Souter, is another who started out fairly conservative but has turned into a pretty consistent vote for the liberals.
Clarence Thomas, the whipping boy of liberals of all stripes who take any black man who would have the effrontery to be a conservative and criticizing affirmative action. Mostly, I think, he’s hated by liberals for performing the wedding ceremony for Rush Limbaugh’s third marriage (I jest). Needless to say, conservatives have been thoroughly delighted with him.

George W. Bush gave us:
John G. Roberts, and
Samuel Alito, both of whom have pleased conservatives.

So then, for those not keeping score at home, I count a total of twelve Supreme Court appointments, of which, seven (Burger, Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Roberts and Alito ) have been mostly pleasing to conservatives. Five (Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O’Connor and Souter) have been mostly a bust.

Considering all of McCain’s “maverick” moments as a legislator, I’d bump that percentage up to 50% or better that any nominee he puts forth will be a disappointment to conservatives, considering that he likes to piss conservative Republicans off almost as much as he likes to work with liberal Democrats to enact unconstitutional laws like the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

With a Hillary or an Obama in the WH…I shudder to think.

I’m not voting for Hillary because I want a women in office, I’m voting for her because I think she’s the most qualified and would be the best leader.

I know well what is at stake with the Supreme Court. I also feel that Obama will not make good judgments about who he would choose. I’ve seen him in action, he will do whatever he can to appease those who can give him the most. That will be the Republican party. Yes, I would rather not vote than hold my nose and vote for a man like Barack Obama.

I understand that you could be upset over Bill Clinton going on Rush Limbaugh’s show. I not only didn’t hear that, but even if I did, it wouldn’t bother me any more than hearing that Jessie Jackson has been making calls and threatening his fellow Democrats who are delegates to switch to Obama. That is a fact that has been verified by more than one black delegate. He has been telling them if they don’t switch their votes to Obama, he’ll make sure that they don’t get re-elected in their districts in the next election. If you want to look for racism…it’s right there . Instead of imagining it, try looking at reality.

Go to Taylor Marsh’s blog and scroll down a couple of posts, you’ll see the picture of the black child in the ad. The Clinton campaign made sure this story was nipped in the bud before they could be falsely branded as racists again.

I think the guy who wrote that article owes Hillary an apology, not that she’ll get it. Slander is easy…now he can go crawl back under the rock he came from and hide from the public.

Disgusting.