Question About McCain’s Supreme Court Confirmation History
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, History, McCain, Supreme CourtAfter watching the Saddleback Forum this weekend, did you find it a bit disingenuous that McCain said he wouldn’t vote to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the court?
Because as many of us are already know, he voted to confirm Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter. He wasn’t able to vote for Stevens, but one would think that he would have done so. And just the simple fact that he listed off every single justice who would uphold Roe v. Wade made the listing of them seem fairly transparent.
I mean, at least Obama was consistent by saying he would have voted against Roberts…since he actually did.
Thoughts?
(h/t: Political Wire)
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August 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Fair enough…although wasn’t Souter a bit of a cipher before he got on the court. On that one I would think a little “knowing what we know now” is in order.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I think the question was, “Which would you not have nominated.” Seems like it’s fair to put it in terms of an assessment of their performance on the bench. I would have liked to have seen a follow-up to McCain’s answer, along the lines of “Do you regret voting to approve their nomination?”
Interesting at how quickly Obama went after Thomas, too.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:43 am
That was the 1st thing I wondered, “did you vote to confirm these folks?”
McCain is full of crap on abortion, always has been. This signals to me that, regardless of what he may say, it’s not an issue he really cares about that much. My gut says that if he’s elected, he’s more likely to nominate a pragmatic cipher than an ideologue. Especially if it’s someone that will be difficult for the right to criticize because of other reasons.
But that’s a guess. I think if you are pro-choice, that’s a very good reason to vote against John McCain.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:08 am
If I were Obama I’d steer Away from the abortion issue, as he voted AGAINST the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act.” HOW IN F&#^ SAKE DO YOU VOTE IN FAVOR OF 4th TERM ABORTIONS!? i.e. a little thing called “infanticide.” All that hope that he could transpose his liberation theology on traditional Evangelicals ain’t gonna happen with little dead babies dangling around his neck.
Based on that: I think if you are pro-humanity, that’s a very good reason to vote against Barrack Obama.