Philadelphia Steve:

Republicans blocked Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas for Chief Justice. Of course Republicans only keep score starting AFTER their accountability ends, so that event does not count.

Just as Republicans only track George W. Bush's "Keeping America Safe" record starting on September 12, 2001.

Congrats -- you found one case of mass conservative opposition to a Supreme Court nominee in the last 40 years. That doesn't much change the main point -- that, over the last 20 years, it is the Democrats who have, with only one exception (Kennedy) launched concerted and sometimes vicious opposition to Republican Supreme Court nominations, whereas Republicans were deferential to Clinton's Supreme Court picks. Which point was made to demonstrate the ridiculousness of your argument that Republicans will trash and stonewall Sotomayor because that's what they always do.