"Rush is right. This is a nomination from a point of weakness. Looks like the WH is worried about W's poll numbers."
The best way to get his poll numbers up would have been to engergize his base and stir things up a bit.
Maybe Bush has been in D.C. too long.
It is a proven fact that it is better to energize your base than try to appeal to people who are not going to vote for you anyway.
I agree with you. Evidently the WH thinks it is to appease the media and the Dems. Oh well.
On the other hand, Fred Barnes has a pretty good piece suggesting that we need to wait and see from the hearings before we pass judgement.
Frankly, I'm not too thrilled with the "cronyism" either.