Bush gave them the ammo when he nominated her. They were already charging cronyism minutes after the announcement. The Senate would have exposed her total lack of constitutional and judicial knowledge during the hearings and then that would have been more damaging.
Bush could have avoided this by pulling the nomination immediately. In fact, he could have avoided the whole situation by properly vetting her and then properly floating her and then actually pay attention to the reaction to the float.
His stubbornness caused this.
It cuts both ways, Jeff.
He thought she was the right person to move the court to the right, and he wasn't going to abandon her.
I'd call that a good quality.