The American Spectator seems to agree with you:
The American Spectator
This is it, the battle for which his presidency has been aimed all along.
He expected it, and I don't think he'll blow it.
What gives all of us pause is that Bush, however determined and principled,
also seems puzzlingly conflict averse.
He just doesn't like a fuss.
And he's impatient with propaganda, having to say the same thing over and over again.
(Bill Clinton loved it.)
You could see it in his first debate with John Kerry.
Kerry famously said out loud he couldn't believe he was losing to
"this idiot."
Quite obviously Bush thought exactly the same of Kerry.
In Bush's view, he had told the truth once. - Wasn't that enough?
So, avoiding needless fuss, Bush will
not make a needlessly provocative appointment.
No Janice Rogers Brown.
No Miguel Estrada.
No Robert Bork, as some have puckishly suggested.
He will nominate someone new, who has not yet been in the public spotlight.
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