[SpringheelJack]

Krauthammer may not ALWAYS be right, but he sure gave the President and Harriet Miers the rationale for "cover" in her withdrawal. His advice or observation formed the basis of putting right a disastrous situation. His view is the same as my hope: the third pick should be JRB.

Nobody believed the Bush spin about why Miers withdrew, so how effective a cover was it? That nomination was going down whether Krauthammer said a word or not.

[alwaysconservative]

True, the nomination was going down, but in order for the President to retain control of the process, HM had to withdraw for at least semi-plausible reasons. Krauthammer (and no one else, I might add, until later) provided that. Fred Barnes lamented that since Krauthammer said this brilliant plan publicly, it would be unable to be implemented. Regardless, it was a plan of action, and we got Alito instead of Miers. A good day's work, indeed.