Smart move, you'd have already lost unless you think Janice Rogers brown is a "RINO".
Apples and pears -- I was talking Supreme Court nominations, where Shrub has already won me my money by walking past Thomas and Scalia to choose between Gonzalez (who's the favorite among the cognoscenti, apparently) and a short list of appeals-court judges.
So Bush has already signaled that conservatives and originalists can forget about it -- he's going to the Rotary Club for his SCOTUS nominees.