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Well, this all boils down to whether or not you trust the President, doesn't it? I do. You don't.

I'm not going to argue. I prefer to wait and see. If it is Clement, we will have to pay attention to her testimony before the Judiciary Committee.

I trust this president on many, many things. If he says that he had evidence of WMDs (just using an example), I believe him. I don't have to see the evidence.

But judicial appointments are different. There can be no trusting that he knows the judicial philosophy of a stealth candidate. How can he possibly know this? Because the candidate told him so? People say lots of things but without deeds to back up their words, who can know? Because a trusted person told him that the candidate was just like Scalia? Someone just like Scalia would have been acting in documented ways just like Scalia.

This is how we got Soutered by Bush I. We will not accept such behavior a second time.

If Bush appoints a stealth candidate, it will tear the Republican Party apart EVEN IF HE TURNS OUT TO BE RIGHT. It will take years for the proof of a new Supreme Court judge's philosophy to be apparent. But the effects of a demoralized base will show up immediately and could give us President Hillary.