Obama, Guns, and the Supreme Court

Robert Novak on Obama's Dodge on Guns:

While Scalia's opinion for now saves Obama from defending a court that had emasculated gun rights, one inconvenient truth confronts the candidate. He has made clear that as president he would nominate Supreme Court justices who agree with the minority of four that the Second Amendment is meaningless. Would he want a reconstituted court to roll back the D.C. decision when the Chicago case gets there?

Obama has been making a shrewd "move to the center" since winning the nomination. While being the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate (more liberal than Ted Kennedy or John Kerry), he has been somewhat successful in convincing certain segments of the population that usually vote Republican or lean conservative that he's not all that liberal. McCain needs to expose this. It would be to the severe detriment of the conservative movement if Obama was allowed to successfully cast himself as a centrist and then stack the Supreme Court with at least 2 liberal judges who will outlast his tenure as president. Despite what many believe, there is not yet a conservative majority on the court. There needs to be at least one more solid conservative appointed before a majority is attained. That, and all the issues that will be determined by the court in the coming years, is what is at stake this year.