Taegan Goddard attempts to nail John McCain in an appointment flip-flop, after McCain said he wouldn’t nominate Justices Ginsburg, Souter, and Breyer. Noting that McCain voted for the confirmation of all three, Goddard writes:

It seems he was for them before he was against them.

As Allahpundit notes, that’s only true if you accept that a vote for an opposing party’s nominee means you would’ve nominated him or her yourself. Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed by a 98-0 margin, with two senators being absent, in a Democratic-controlled Congress. Does that mean that every single Democrat in there would’ve nominated him as president? Heck, Biden voted for him and maintains to this day that Scalia “misreads the Constitution”.

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