[Wisconsin (R) Senator] Johnson: Could vote [for SCOTUS appointment] if Obama was Republican

[Goblinmonger]

MADISON - A Republican senator suggested on Thursday that the Senate might consider filling the current vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court if President Barack Obama were a conservative.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who faces a tough re-election contest in November, has been united with other Senate Republicans in opposing moving forward with any Obama nominee to replace Antonin Scalia, who died last month. But on Thursday, Johnson suggested things would be different if Republican Mitt Romney were president.

"It's a different situation," Johnson said in response to the hypothetical question from the "Morning Mess" radio host. "Generally, and this is the way it works out politically, if you're replacing — if a conservative president's replacing a conservative justice, there's a little more accommodation to it."

Johnson faces Democrat Russ Feingold this November in a rematch of their 2008 race. Feingold has joined with other Democrats in saying the Senate should move ahead with consideration of whoever Obama may nominate.

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I don't think he read the memo where he was told NOT to say that explicitly.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Good, if the good people of Wisconsin are lucky then elect a Democrat to replace

Those who refuse to do their job.

[Goblinmonger]

4. Ron Johnson is a gigantic turd.

He rode the Walker wave into the senate. That wave is not so big anymore. Hopefully Feingold kicks his ass.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Especially when Johnson brags he would vote of Obama was Republican.

[FSogol]

2. The GOP has always suffered from Situational ethics

[HassleCat]

3. At least he didn't mention the other memo.

The one that cautions Republicans not to allow a nomination unless a white guy is president.

[Half-Century Man]

6. Of course:what would lead anyone to think RJ iscapable of indapendant thought?

He's a barely adequate republican lackey.