Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

The appeasers

Tony Blankley:

"[He is] decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent." Does anyone come to mind? Those were actually Winston Churchill's words describing the Hitler appeasers leading the British government prior to World War II. But it is an uncannily evocative description of John F. Kerry on the matter of Iraq in 2004.
In the last few months, Mr. Kerry has been for more troops and less troops, for believing the war was necessary (even knowing everything we now know) and for believing it is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has stated that anyone who thinks removing Saddam Hussein was not good and necessary was not fit to be president, and that removing Saddam was a mistake. He has said that we must succeed in Iraq, no matter how many resources it takes, and that he will substantially reduce our troops in the first six months of his presidency and almost completely get out by the first four years.
At any given moment John Kerry sounds decided, resolved, adamant and powerful in his convictions. But just as the appeasers against whom Churchill railed seven decades ago, Mr. Kerry soon undecides his decisions, revokes his resolution, drifts away from his adamance, liquifies his solidity and gelds the potency of his previous conviction.
Anyone with such a recent record of ludicrous reversals and re-reversals would not be taken seriously enough to be quoted by the national press (if he wasn't the standard bearer for a great party's presidential quest.

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As John Kennedy said, "any danger spot is tenable if men — brave men, will make it so." He would recognize President Bush's convictions as his own — words and thoughts which have not changed a jot or a tittle in the three years since September 11.
None of us may predict what men from another time would think of our age. But it is hard to imagine that John Kennedy, a man who would — and did — "pay any price and bear any burden" could be heartened to see his near-name sake and party son twist and turn, evade and avoid, rally and retreat on the supreme issues of war and peace in a desperate and unprincipled political hunger for high office. It is doubtful that JFK-1 would support JFK-2.