Sounds to us like a pretty good reason to nominate him. Bloomberg:

[Senator Edward] Kennedy, 73, said he believes that the consideration on Rehnquist’s replacement should be more than just “replacing one right-winger for a right-winger.” Still, the Senate debate on any Rehnquist replacement would “clearly” be much different than the discussion about a nominee who would tip the ideological balance of the court. “It’s clear it’s going to have a significant impact” on the Senate debate that “Rehnquist is leaving and not” one of the court’s moderates, the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview.

He added that he thinks that two sitting justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, “would be completely troublesome” as nominees. He ruled out any possibility of Thomas being selected, while acknowledging that Scalia might be harder to defeat.

This should be some gooood TV.

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