I disagree. If Bush nominates a strict constitutionalist and conservative with battle-tested, impecable, verifiable credentials (like Luttig, McConnell, Alioto, Brown, Jone, Owen, etc), he will see a tremendous outpouring of support from the conservative majority that elected him to do exactly that. It is time for Bush to stop pandering and appeasing the RINOs & DimWits because they will hate & despise him anyway. Give us a nominee that we can rally around and support, not another stealth nominee or liberal-moderate nominee like Gonzales. Do the right thing, GW Bush!
I agree with you 100%. The fact I refused to get involved in this flame war should speak volumes on here because I have been involved in most of the rest. I wasn't willing to walk the plank for this nomination and I wasn't willing to toss her overboard until after the hearings UNLESS something came out before. That 1993 speech did it for me!
She was not the best nominee IMHO but for whatever reason she was nominated, she didn't deserve to be called names, etc. That was very tacky and uncalled for as she should have been judged on her writings and her speeches along with her testimony before the Senate Judiciary. Based on what I have read this week, I don't think she would have survived the hearings and why she withdrew so as not to embarrass the President.