... Bush would really like to name Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the Sandra Day O’Connor vacancy, but the events of the last few weeks have conspired against Gonzales. With Bush’s approval rating at 40 percent, he can’t afford to alienate his base of social conservatives. Bush promised them another Scalia or Thomas, unapologetic “originalists” who don’t invite a guessing game about where they stand on Roe. A strategist who has worked with conservative groups says, “If he named Gonzales, it would be the equivalent of his father reneging on taxes. It would be an event of that magnitude. He’d...