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More than that, Spiff.

Look at Rudy's actual record on judges. I really wish someone would actually post that information sometime.

He also praised Darth Vader Ginsberg.

In an interview, he once said that appointing a SCOTUS justice who would uphold Roe vs. Wade wasn't the "top priority." Upon watching this interview, I find it impossible for anyone to get the idea that it wouldn't be a high priority - though not the "top" one.

In a 2000 interview on This Week with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson, he called Roe vs. Wade "good law." Think he's out to appoint judges that will apply what he believes to be bad law on one of the most critical judicial issues today?

Those who think we'd be okay because Rudy would give us nothing but the judges we want need to look at his history on judges, his views on key judicial issues, and the amount of judges (not JUST SCOTUS Justices) that he would appoint as President.

There is a great danger there that we'd be stuck with a long streak of vary bad judges, for a minimum of eight years when you think about it. Because in 2012, we'd get Rudy or a Democrat again in that scenario - so we'd be guaranteed eight years of bad appointments or not-very-good appointments.

– The Boston Globe wrote in 2005, “Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents – including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights.”

Rudy has no "record on judges" regarding appointments. once you understand how the judicial appointment process in NYC works (as I outlined on another thread), you see that.

Ginsberg won confirmation 96-3. almost every republican voted for her.