Conservative is the mainstream. People on here acting outraged that there would be a mainstream nominee puzzles me. Do they expect the White House to announce "We will select a nominee that is outside of the mainstream?" Do they themselves believe he should be pick a member of the court that is "outside of the mainstream"?
The problem is that it is the Left-Stream Media (note that I don't call them "mainstream") that is tossing around the term "mainstream", and they don't use either the common or our definition of the word. To them, Souter is "mainstream".
"Conservative is the mainstream. "
That's what I'm saying - Bush/Rove are setting up the Dems into painting themselves into a corner.