McCain on JudgesMike Rappaport

I have great respect for both John McGinnis, my frequent coauthor, and Steve Calabresi, my long time friend and my note editor in law school.  But I must disagree with them on John McCain's judicial appointments.  Yes, McCain's appointments would be better than Hillary's or Obama's.  After all, Kennedy and O'Connor are certainly better than Ginsberg or Brennan.  But that is the problem: the Republicans have had enough Kennedys, O'Connors, Stevenses, and Souters.  McCain will be facing a Democratic Senate.  He will need to compromise.  Even if one believes that Republicans would be mad at him for appointing a moderate if the Republicans had the Senate, he will always be able to say that a true conservative could not be confirmed.  I predict that McCain will appoint a highly qualified, blank slate -- a stealth nominee who is stealth to the conservatives in his party as well as to the Democrats --a more qualified Justice Souter.

Obviously, I am not sure about this, but I certainly think there is a good chance of it.  And even if I thought the Court were the most important issue, I would not think it worth sacrificing everything else for the possibility that McCain is better than I predict.

Comments

[Mike]

Mike,
Wow, your anti-McCainisms are truly non-understandable.
I'll go with the Federalist Society's and Ted Olson's thinking on McCain and judges waaaay ahead of yours.
Not to mention your refered to WSJ op-ed writers.
If you truly believe either Romney or Huckabee could ever be elected President, go back to your Dr., you're on the wrong meds!
However, you'd seem to be in bad company, NRO and HH are first to mind.
All you ankle biters would be much better off pontificating on who should be "one term McCain's" VP.
Myself,I'll go with J. Kenneth Blackwell as Veep. National GOP totally abandoned this great Republican in the OH Governor contest.
http://www.ashbrook.org/events/lecture/2003/blackwell_speech.html

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18874

http://townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=second_amendment_freedoms_aided_the_civil_rights_movement&ns=KenBlackwell&dt=02/06/2007&page=1

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2007/01/23/on_keeping_perspective_and_beginning_again

[Sam Goble]

Mike,

Slinging insults is not an argument. Slinging insults without signing your full name is not honorable.