[Jim Robinson]

I’m partial to Palin. Newt will do in a pinch.

[ironangel]

I’m partial to Palin. Newt will do in a pinch.

Neither is going to get the nomination....Write in = Obama for another 4 years!

[shibumi]

In real politics there is no center.

There is only the Right, the Left and the Left More Slowly.

~OR~ as Ayn Rand put it -

In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

[maggief]

Are you saying FR is ready to through the Supreme Court over to radicals? Here lies the battleground. In THEIR control ALL other bets are off.

wiki:

After Stevens announced his retirement, an anonymous White House official said that about ten people were under consideration.[35] The leading contenders to replace Stevens were said to include Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Pamela Wood and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, both of whom were interviewed for the David Souter vacancy, and D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick B. Garland, who was also considered for the Souter vacancy.[35] Others mentioned include Ninth Circuit Judge Sidney Runyan Thomas, former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.[38]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051001116.html
Kagan, 50, the solicitor general named to replace outgoing liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, would not immediately alter the ideological balance of the bench. But her addition would almost certainly provide a lasting, liberal presence, and administration officials hope she would, in the words of one, “start to move the court into a different posture and profile.”