It's the Economy ... NO, THE SUPREME COURT!(United States Supreme Court and the presidential elections)

As Democrats dream about the possibility of retaking the White House in 2008, they are also fantasizing about their first Supreme Court appointments since 1994. But the bench of potential candidates is surprisingly thin.[M]ost of the sitting Democratic appellate judges are too old to be considered plausible Supreme Court candidates.

That leaves only one other category of potential Democratic justices: current and former politicians. Politicians tend to be more pragmatic than ideological and [can] build majorities and transform the Court in their own image [emphasis added].

[A]ny Democratic justice appointed from politics would have to be book smart as well as a ruthlessly determined politician. All of which means that the next Democratic president may have only one obvious candidate for the first Supreme Court vacancy: Once Obama has beaten [Hillary] Clinton, or vice versa, and gone on to the White House, the winner can appoint the loser to the Supreme Court. -- Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic ("Why the Dems lack Supreme Court nominees," 2/27/2008)

Jeffrey Rosen may appear to be "dreaming" or "fantasizing," but he is certainly serious about his suggestion. And pro-lifers must take this scenario seriously, too. (Most likely, Bill Clinton was not considered an "obvious candidate" by Rosen because Clinton was disbarred for several years after he had given false testimony in court and has, well, other "baggage.")

Pro-abortion Democrats may be "dreaming" and "fantasizing" about either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama "transforming the Court in their own image," but for pro-lifers such a turn of events would be a nightmare. It would be bad enough if either of them were to become president, but to have a "twofer" with the Democratic primary elections loser becoming a Supreme Court justice would try our patience to the utmost. In the case of such a calamity, the marshal's words at the beginning of a Court session would then become our fervent prayer: "God Save the United States and this Honorable Court!"

Anyone who doubts that a President Hillary Clinton or a President Barack Obama would appoint anyone but a rigid pro-abortionist to the Supreme Court should keep in mind the common refrain at an Obama rally: "Yes, we can!"

Let's face it. Once again the Democratic Party is offering this country only presidential candidates who are enthusiastically "pro-choice"that is pro-abortion. The only antidote to that sad situation is that the other major party offers us a candidate who is pro-life and can win.