And at this point in time, abortion is settled law. She made that statement at the time of her nomination to the appeals court, and IN THE CONTEXT OF HER ROLE that was exactly right. Now you may not like the fact that she didn't follow that by giving her personal opinion of whether it should be settled law, but that's a different issue.
But she very pointedly did distinguish between her opinion and the supremes' opinions during the nomination process. To me that's a signal of a great mind at work.
It seems to be universal conventional wisdom that she is pretty darn moderate and not at all a person with deep conservative convictions. So bascially Bush, if she is his choice, gave the Democrats their best case scenario. That's not what he said he would do....
Maybe to get appointed to the Court. But the justice's oath is to uphold the Constitution, not decisions of the Supreme Court.