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Somehow I suspect if Bork were nominated..... it would be considered by the dem 7 to be "extroidinary circumstances".

If Bush's nominee is filibustered, he could name Bork as a temporary "recess apointment." But there is another person who should be considered:

a person who is renowned for lucid analysis
a person who Ted Kennedy is contemptuous of
a person who is a friend of Clarence Thomas
a person who applied for the very seat on the bench that Reagan named O'Connor to.
On the very day that Reagan named O'Connor, the Wall Street Journal published a convincing letter to the editor making the case that an economist should be named to the Supreme Court. I read it, and I thought "Great idea! And I know who would be perfect for it - Thomas Sowell!" Then I read the byline of the letter to the editor - and it was by Thomas Sowell!
When Kennedy was grilling Clarence Thomas he tried to associate Thomas with Sowell as a way of discrediting Thomas in the eyes of the Democratic majority on the Judiciary Committee of the time. Thomas didn't comment, and was confirmed - but he would have loved to have spoken in defense of Sowell!.