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I see no indication that a Governor Fred Thompson of Mass. would have picked a different person to be a judge. We can’t know of course since Fred has never appointed a conservative judge, OR a liberal judge, though he DID vote for some pretty liberal Clinton appointees while he was in the senate. I wouldn’t hold Fred accountable for the liberals he voted yes on, although by the logic here I guess I should.
Yeah, Fred’s shepharding of Justice Roberts through confirmation in the Senate was a disaster.
/sarcasm/

Chief Justice John Roberts has nothing to do with what CharlesWayneCT stated, which was that when Thompson was a SENATOR, he voted in favor of more than a few liberal Clinton appointees.

And I might add, that during the time Thompson was serving in the Senate as a Senator (and not as a shephard, lol) he saw nothing wrong with cutting Bill Clinton some slack by throwing procedural roadblocks into the way when it came to supporting the House impeachment managers in '98. Nobody calling themselves a conservative should have been cutting Clinton slack for ANYTHING.