Because on its face it is awful and I don't see any mitigating facts to make this pick deserve the benefit of the doubt. Bar Association? Lottery? Political lawyer? Do these things make you hopeful?
If he was going to go outside the system to pick a new judge he could have done us all the favor and picked someone who wasn't a lawyer.
You don't see any FACTS at all on these threads; just people like you, setting their hair on fire, hoping for some doom and gloom to bash Bush with.
Agreed
When one sees bar association head, state lottery director and apparent dim support red flags have to go up. When Scalia and Thomas were nominated we knew exactly what we were getting and we haven't been disappointed. These stealth candidates usually turn out to be anything but strict constructionists. By the time you're 60, people have a pretty good idea where you stand on such issues.
Just saw a writer for the WSJ on CNBC. He characterized her as a pragmatic conservative. Pragmatic is not what I was looking for.