O'Connor steps down (merged threads)

[scaeagles]

Prudence and Sac - do you not think that it is also going to be an opportunity for the left to use scare tactics about how any conservative justice will erode their rights? I find that to be particularly humorous being that the recent decisions have been voted for and ruled in the affirmatived by primarily those justices seen as left leaning, like Souter, Ginsberg, and Breyer. You didn't see those categorized as right leaning - specifically Scalia and Thomas - voting to drastically change the law on private property rights.

There will be huge amounts of politicing on both sides. Kennedy, Shumer, and all the usual dem suspects will be shouting from the rooftops how extreme the nominee is.

I read something funny this morning somewhere....can't racall where...it was something like this:

"Bush nominated George Washington to the Supreme Court today. Democrats immediately attacked his enviornmental record because of his cherry tree chopping incident."

No matter who is appointed, unless it's Al Gore or Bill Clinton, they going to be attacked as a religious zealot nut who threatens the very foundation of our democracy. It won't be Bush or Rove moving the attention away from Iraq - it will be the dems in their attacks doing so.