"You guys are dreaming. Bush is doing this in part to stick it to the intelligensia like Will and Kristol. No way he pulls her."
So you are saying that Bush, before the nomination happened, thought about it and said to himself "You know, this will really tick off the conservative columnist egg-heads ... Cool, let's go for it!"
Not a chance.
Believe it. Bush wanted Gonzales and all the bashing of his best buddy pissed him off. The Kristol crowd reminds Bush of the snobs he hated at Yale. He likes the idea of putting a "regular" person on the Court.