[ex-Texan]

Already the MSM reporters are starting to grumble and moan. CNN leads the pack. But Rush Limbaugh was doing his best this morning to say that Alito is a great pick for Bush to make. Nobody in the media has suggested yet that the Harriet Miers pick was a set-up by Bush to test the waters. But that is how it appears to me. Miers was a set-up by Bush. He picked a non-judge with excellent credentials and liberals were fulminating while conservatives were grumbling. Bush nows knows who is supporting him and who is critical. Having tested the waters, he now picks a judge with a 15 year conservative track record.

It's a bit like watching football, folks. Bush faked a sweep around the left side and handed off to a power runner up the middle.

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[nicmarlo]

Personally, I don't believe that the President would ever have put forth a nominee about whom he had no intention of wanting on SCOTUS. I don't see that he's the kind of person who hangs someone out to dry, or puts forth to be castigated by any group, simply because he wishes to "test the waters." That kind of thing would be done, imho, by someone who lacks character; whatever my disagreements are, and have been, with him concerning certain of his domestic policies, I cannot say any apply to his character.