Stevens – R – liberal
Scalia – R – conservative
Kennedy – R – center-center-left
Souter – R – liberal
Thomas – R – conservative
Ginsburg – D – liberal
Breyer – D – liberal
Alito – R – conservative
Roberts – R – conservative

Republican presidents have nominated 7 of the 9 sitting justices.
-4 conservatives
-1 liberal-leaning moderate
-2 liberals

Let’s go back further, to the Nixon-era appointments of Rehnquist, Powell, and Blackmun
-1 conservative
-2 liberals

Not to mention O’Connor, who was a little to the left of Kennedy but still enough of a centrist on some issues to avoid the full liberal label.

Now, let’s look at the last 4 Democratic appointees (2 for Clinton, 2 for LBJ, Carter was shut out and beyond that we’re with Truman in the 40s so it’s irrelevant to today’s politics):

Ginsberg
Breyer
Abe Fortas
Thurgood Marshall

In the last 60 years, Democrats are batting 4-for-4 with 4 Liberal home runs.

Republicans, in the last 40 years, have had 11 at-bats, and have a record of 5 conservatives, 4 liberals, and 2 “moderates” that voted liberal more often than not.

Please, do not deride Eliot Spitzer with ad hominem attacks based on his indiscretions. Instead, use facts and logic to make him appear to all as the mental midget he shows himself to be in this utterance.

(Bob, for the record, count me among the people that internet duelists hate lining up against…)