The Smallest Minority

Is McCain going to be the kind of Republican president who appoints Scalias and Thomases, or the kind of Republican president that appoints Stevens and Souters?

I greatly fear Mr. Maverick is the latter and not the former.

Thus the "F^*K IT!"

Because, no matter what, we know Obama is the kind of Democrat president who appoints Ginsbergs, and he'll have a Democrat-controlled Senate to approve them.

You do realize that McCain's going to have to sell us out on SOMETHING to buy some cooperation from the Democrats. Who's to say it won't be this?

I've weakened some on my McCain resistance. Not enough to vote for him yet, mind you.

I'm very interested in his choice of veeps...

Yup. His choice of VP will either make me pull the lever for him or Bob Barr, and screw the consequences.

Kevin, if Gore had been elected instead of Bush, and he nearly was, the Heller decision would almost certainly gone the other way (assuming Heller would have taken the case that far under those conditions). The decision you make matters, even if it's only to reject the most likely evil. This is the time for your best thinking, not for your worst despair.

Even if McCain listens to his conservative advisers (are there any?) and nominates a judge who thinks the Constitution means what it says, the legislature won't approve anyone who is remotely principled enough to hold originalism over decades of horrible precedence. Best case scenario, McCain under mind control nominates Janice Rogers Brown. Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth? Schumer would get the vapors. But in the end, she would not get the nod.

I read on the internet [therefore, it must be true] that McMaverick said Fred Thompson would be advising him on Supreme Court nominees.

I don't know that Ol' Fred is good enough to be on it, but it makes one think, doesn't it?

I don't really even know who Bob Barr was until this exchange was related to me:
BECK: Do you build the border fence?

BARR: No.

BECK: You got to explain that one. Why not?

BARR: First of all, I think it would be terribly costly. And whatever border fence you build, people are going to find a way to get around it, go under it, go over it, somehow.

{Dirty Harry}Marvelous.{/Dirty Harry}

If there is a Second Amendment right to firearms, but it doesn’t protect a right for law-abiding citizens to keep guns in their own homes for self defense, then what, exactly does it guarantee? Don’t expect Obama to provide a meaningful answer to that question."

Recall how significant the votes of gun owners were in the defeat of Gore and Kerry? This decision just might be the oaken stake that gun owners can drive into the heart of the Obama campaign (um, pardon the cliché overload).