Allow me to add you to my list of people who I'd like to see offer even a single reference to when Bush ever promised to appoint someone in the mold of Scalia or Thomas. Good luck.
"Allow me to add you to my list of people who I'd like to see offer even a single reference to when Bush ever promised to appoint someone in the mold of Scalia or Thomas. Good luck."
As several have already pointed out - he promised without naming them - unless he was being "Clintonesque" about it. Is that what you're saying? Depends of the definition of ____ ?
We all know that politicians frequently lie and that all politicians lie at one time or another (as do everyone else, just not in a much of a public setting and on the record). Politicians also like to broadcast a message in coded terms, so they are harder to pin down in the future.
Bush has been a politician for a long time. If he didn't want us to have the impression that Scalia and Thomas were his model SCOTUS appointments, he could have easily named a slew of others. He didn't.
Now he comes along with a nominee who is not quite in the mold (Roberts) and a second one even less so. What are we supposed to think in comparing his actions to his implied intentions? What about the third and fourth appointments?