The Next President And The Supreme Court

When the next president of the United States is sworn in on January 20th 2009 he is going to possibly be in a position to spread his idealogical influence over the country for a generation or more because of the current makeup of the Supreme Court and the advanced ages of most of the current members. Out of the nine members of the court there are six of them who will be over the age of 70 come next inauguration day. it is actually possible that the next president may be in a position to replace all of them especially if he serves two terms.
Some people believe falsely that when a president leaves office that he is gone and all his policies go with him. It is not the case. The supreme court is the lingering legacy that they leave behind and it is in my opinion an important thing to consider in the next election. The appointees that George Bush has made are going to be with us for at least another 25-30 years barring any kind of unexpected health crisis. Justices like Roberts and Alito are going to be working all that time i figure to limit the rights of every American on subjects such as abortion as well as others so you see we are going to be living with the nonsense of the Bush years for longer than most people think. I Myself am not sure i want a republican president coming up in this cycle who will be in the position of actually turning the entire Supreme Court conservative. It's one of my other reasons im not so interested in a John McCain presidency this time around. A total right wing Supreme Court is something that should scare every American who desires any kind of civil liberty or personal freedom i feel. An all right wing Court would probably work overtime to limit those kinds of things which works counter to the constitutions guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in my estimation. This reality alone is reason enough to vote Democratic this time around regardless of who is the candidate whether he be black, female or whatever. A Supreme Court that is more liberal in its leanings is always more receptive to leaving individual citizens to run their own lives without interference from the heavy hand of government and this is always more desirable in a "free Country." Conservatives always like to legislate morality and it is not their place frankly to do that. They should make their case for that based on the power of their arguments and not try to impose their version of morality by law which is what they always tend to want to do and that is not freedom.