"If Mitt wins the
nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his
candidacy. For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you
to keep four things in mind: Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy
will turn 78 later this year, Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice
Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. We wish them all well, of course, but the
brute fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost
certainly going to choose at least one and maybe more new members of the
Supreme Court -- in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges,
all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to
come. If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt
Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something dangerous."
--columnist Andrew McCarthy
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