[A CA Guy]

She was Deputy Chief of Staff and then White House Council.

In 1985, she became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association and in 1992 became the first woman to head the Texas State Bar.

You don't do the above without the talent, toughness, logic and ability to work with people.

She shows she is well liked on all sides of the isle to be Head of the Texas State Bar and had to pass lots of scrutiny to get that.

She's a tough cookie and seems to be a great pick since she's been working with Bush for a decade and has been his most invited guest to Camp David and his ranch to work.

This will turn out IMO like a less known but as conservative pro life version of Condoleezza Rice.

[steveegg]

Which, when thrown in with her pre-Bush/pre-Pubbie days, puts her as Miss Congeniality, not necessarily Miss Conservative 2005 (the "pit bull in size 6 shoes" comment notwithstanding :-)

[johnb838]

This will turn out IMO like a less known but as conservative pro life version of Condoleezza Rice.

Ohhhh God! Do you even know what you're saying? Invoking Condoleeeeza Reich is not the way to ingratiate yourself around here these days.

[safisoft]

This will turn out IMO like a less known but as conservative pro life version of Condoleezza Rice.

Condolezza Rice is CONSERVATIVE? What exactly does that word mean to people these days if she can be called CONSERVATIVE? Ms. Rice may not be a liberal, but she is a warm and squishy moderate on most things. Plus she is an anti-Semite in a most dangerous way.