Posted on 07/10/2005 8:01:30 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
President Bush will nominate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to be chief justice of the Supreme Court after William Rehnquist joins Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and announces his retirement, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol predicted on Sunday.
"The chief justice will step down this week," Kristol, who accurately forecast last month that O'Connor would be the first to go, told "Fox News Sunday."
"The president is planning to announce two nominations for those vacancies before he leaves for Crawford at the end of the month," he predicted. "I've been told that the White House has told certain people to keep their calendars clear for July 26 and 27." Kristol said sources "close to the White House and at the Justice Department" have told him that "the president wants to nominate Attorney General Gonzales to be chief justice."
The well-connected commentator predicted that tapping a moderate like Gonzales to head the court would "demoralize" Bush's conservative base, which has waged a 30-year battle to change the ideological balance of the high court.
"I think if the president nominates Gonzales, it will be disastrous for the Republican Party," Kristol said. "It will have a bad effect on the Bush administration for the rest of its term."
He contended that a Gonzales nomination would be "the equivalent of the [1990] budget deal," when Bush's father reneged on his promise not to raise taxes.
Diasterous would be an understatement.
*curses* But, I USED the search engine.
Just don't nominated him first... he can be the second or third
Gonzalez is still employed as AG. Why not give the nomination to John Ashcroft ?
That should be good enough to launch several lefties into orbit.
I can hear the heads exploding and the tofu being tossed up now! LOL
I trust Kristol is wrong.
If Bush nominates Gonzalez I'm finished with Bush. NOTHING could change my mind, not even a failure of the nomination to go through. Sorry, but it would undo everything Bush has accomplished so far, and consign him to the trash. Nominating a pro-abort, squishy RINO to SCOTUS because he happens to be Bush's friend would be a huge mistake.
I don't want to see hillary become president, but it might happen, because this would cause a meltdown of the whole Republican party.
Hopefully Kristol is wrong. But I would no more forgive Bush for such a move than I would forgive Chirac.
Don't forget his National Council of La Raza ties, which I'd have expected out of a Democrat nominee but NEVER out of a GOP nominee. I don't know whether it's a blind friendship thing (though I hear they've only been friends for the last 12 years which is less time than I've been out of college) or a "pandering to who I think hispanic voters like" thing.
Either way, Gonzalez leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Why yell at Kristol? He isn't even the messenger just reporting and giving his thoughts and it seems he is on the right side. Bush could well be on the wrong side of this.
And, this one of the first times I've actually agreed with Kristol.
I hope Kristol is wrong. If he did this, it would mean that he has been LYING to us about USSC nominations. I really don't think he would do that. But I've been wrong before.
I can't see a Republican majority voting for Gonzales...But a few Republicans and all the Democrats will...
Because Kristol hasn't got a clue that what he predicts will really happen.
Pounding his chest saying "look at me".
Has there been anything GOOD in the media/blogs about Gonzalez lately?
Me too. What is the current temperature of Hell?
Well, I'm wearing a light sweater.
"Don't forget his National Council of La Raza ties"
I thought he was associated with MeCha?
Read my lips; no new taxes.
I will appoint a Scalia or a Thomas.
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