Given his limited choices, it will be Edith Clement (who was almost picked before Roberts) or Williams from SC (whom I know nothing about).
It will not be Brown.
The good news is that, hopefully, the ubers will now support whomever Bush puts forward. I'm listening to Laura Ingraham for the first time in months, and she is STILL trashing Miers while saying she did the right thing.
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I concede that your thinking regarding the issue of gender is correct, although I disapprove strongly of such a consideration. I hope you are also correct about support for Bush's next nomination, although from many of the posts I have seen, I wonder.
Edith Clement is not a strong choice. He won't choose her. It would be another mistake and he wants to get all the conservatives on board this time.