And yet:
1. He told a group of supporters that he would NOT appoint judges like Alito because “that guy wears his conservatism on his sleeve.”
2. He knows that judges in the Rehnquist-Roberts-Alito mold would be more likely to overturn his signature achievement, McCain-Feingold, given the chance.
3. He loves to accommodate Democrats and he knows that the Dimmycraps will NEVER allow judges like that to get coonfirmed; and
4. He was the leader of the so-called “Gang of Fourteen” which deraield the prospect of forcing through cofirmation of several of President Bush’s nominations — especially the ones most in the mold of the judges he now says he likes.
Let’s be honest: we’ve gotten these promises from every Republican Presiential nominee, then we’ve gotten justices like Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and so very many others.
McCain also says he’ll secure the borders, but at the same time he says he’d sign a bill like the amnesty bill that bore his name.
Juan McVain simply isn’t telling you the truth. There is no “straight talk” there — he talks out of both sides of his mouth, like any other politician infected with a bad case of Potomac fever.
See post #22 for the REASONS you won’t get what you want.
And now we have basically an evenly divided court with most of the decisions going 5-4 our way. We may get hoodwinked on some, but lately we have been doing better.