[jdm]

"nonsense. He would say that about anyone. This is all fiddle faddle He said he would pick someone like Scalia or Thomas. That's good enough for me."

Scalia or Thomas would be for Chief Justice, though. This article is about replacing O'Connor, not replacing Rehnquist. I, too, would like to see Thomas become Chief Justice when that particular vacancy occurs.

[ontos-on]

"like Scalia or Thomas" not Scalia or Thomas. Bush said during his two election campaigns, that this was the kind of Judge he would appoint to the Supreme Court. The answer was not limited to the Chief Justice.