That wasn't her point. Coulter's point was Bush should have nominated someone with definite conservative principles with evidence of court rulings. I however think Coulter vastly underestimates Roberts background as an extranordinary conservative. Just because it is not written in concrete in judicial opinions, doesn't mean it is not there. Ann did not do her homework.
Laurence Tribe, a liberal professor of constitutional law at Harvard, remembers Roberts as a student there and has kept in touch with him over the years. He does not recall Roberts as a political conservative.
"He's conservative in manner and conservative in approach," Tribe said. "He's a person who is cautious and careful, that's true. But he is also someone quite deeply immersed in the law, and he loves it. He believes in it as a discipline and pursues it in principle and not by way of politics."