Conservative vs. Liberal Judges?

Saturday's op-ed contained a piece by a conservative writer bemoaning the terrible "mistakes" conservatives have had in appointing properly conservative judges to the Supreme Court, citing Scalia and Thomas as the only ones recently that have remained properly conservative.  Maybe the problem is not that they have not remained "conservative" enough (since when are judges supposed to be political anyhow?) but that they are merely following the Constitution, the laws and precedent and this just isn't the alternative reality conservatives have set up for themselves.  Their "reality" is that only "liberal" judges are activists and Scalia is a strict constructionist, following the Constitution to the letter.  Only someone with an alternative reality or a contortionist could rule that the Second Amendment contains no reference to the ownership of guns being tied to being in the militia.

Of course the biggest irony of the whole thing is that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was a Republican, conservative idea, asked for by that holy of holies to conservatives, private industry.  It only became an evil government thing when it was adopted by Democrats and that evil black president.