Was she the most conservative person Bush could get through the process? Didn't he, by apparently picking her, go easy on the Hard Left?
Possibly. Her record looks like she is a judicial conservative through and through. Or do you want a judicial activist whose activism is conservative?
Didn't he, by apparently picking her, go easy on the Hard Left?
Assuming she is even the pick, no. I think he makes it harder on the hard left with this pick because they will have a harder time painting her as an "extremist" even though she looks as solid as a Michael Luttig or Janics Rogers Brown.