Dark 'moderate' clouds loom over the Supreme Court

McCain Might Choose Moderate Court Justices Forecasts Novak

By Kevin MooneyCNSNews.com Staff WriterJune 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) -

If Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is elected president, he might find it difficult to move a conservative Supreme Court nominee through the U.S. Senate, according to columnist Robert Novak. Novak was speaking in response to a question from Cybercast News Service at conservative event in Trenton, N.J., last Friday. At the "Defending the American Dream Summit" organized by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Novak -- a long-time Washington political reporter and conservative commentator -- painted a bleak political landscape for the Republican Party and conservatives in the near term.

Novak, the featured speaker at the event, predicted that the GOP will lose four seats in the Senate. As a result, said Novak, a President McCain will be "strongly tempted" to refrain from selecting a Supreme Court nominee such as Chief Justice John Roberts or Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Instead, McCain might settle on a nominee more like Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote on the current court and who is viewed as more moderate than either of President Bush's nominees, said Novak. Kennedy secured a position on the U.S. Supreme Court after the Democrat-controlled Senate rejected Robert Bork, who was President Ronald Reagan's first choice for an open seat in 1987.

Another justice cut of the same clath as Anthony Kennedy? Lord Luv a Duck! I sure hope that some of you Pilgrims that live in those states with Republican Senators in trouble are taking a looooong hard look at what's going on. Elizabeth Dole and Mitch McConnel come to mind. Us Texans are fighting to keep our Senator Cornyn and not let the liberal Democrat trial lawyer that wants to upset him be pull it off!