If not for principled conservatives demanding otherwise, Alberto Gonzales might well have been the pick.
Gonzales was the pick only in fevered minds that expected betrayal at every corner. It was not predicated on his actual record of slecting Justices.
People that doubted or believed differently, have been discredited with this pick. Whether or not they acknowledge it.
Ah well. It's the Week of the Bushbots. Small price to pay for a better Supreme Court. Who knows? The black robes might even get tired of killing babies soon. FRegards....
The president was NEVER going to nominate Gonzales and only the politically naive and forever UNAPPEASEABLE thought he would. And Clement was a red herring.
You and the rest of the UNAPPEASEABLE purists are NEVER going to get it.
Oh and BTW...YOU had less than NOTHING whatsoever to do with the president's SCOTUS choice.
Reagan chose O'Connor; remember ?
Now, tell me again, just how "principled" Conservatives got President Bush to pick Roberts? ROTFLMSO
You really don't get it, do you?
President Bush IS a principled conservative. He SAID he was going to nominate a justice who would follow the Constitution as it was originally intended to be followed, and he DID.
You don't really think he read FR today and changed his mind today because of your griping, do you??