Bush's SCOTUS Nominee

Random thoughts on George Bush's Supreme Court nominee.

Campaign promises are often broken, but Bush tends to say what he means. When he says he admires Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia and he'll appoint strict constructionists, then that is probably what he will do. He's not a man of pretense -- what you see and hear is what you get.

So, the nominee will probably be a conservative strict constructionist, but not a right wing wacko or ideologue (although the Democrats will attempt a simultaneous ideologue spin and character assassination on any Bush nominee).

Smear and obstruct is the tactic employed when one can only effect policy by relying on a liberal judiciary to legislate from the bench.

Democrats are akin to the outnumbered schoolyard bully who insists on playing by his rules, but when the fight begins is the first to shout, "he started it".

Bush would love to appoint an hispanic, but my initial prediction of Alberto Gonzales may have been too hasty.

In the end, Bush will nominate someone who will strictly interpret the Constitution, not someone the Democrats convolutely feel entitled to pre-nominate and pre-confirm.