WA Post: Will Bush "alienate his base" by naming Hispanic chief justice?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Once again, it's NOT about what's best for the country...it's about making Junior look GOOD, about "a choice that would help shape his legacy."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8272841/

Possible Bush court nominees pose quandary
A conservative anchor vs. an ethnic first



"Undated photo of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, provided by the court."

President Bush's advisers are focusing their search for a new Supreme Court justice on a trio of candidates who could present the president with a choice that would help shape his legacy -- pick a reliable conservative to anchor the court for decades or go for history by naming the first Hispanic chief justice at the risk of alienating his base.

While the cancer-stricken Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has not publicly signaled his decision, many in the White House and around Washington expect him to announce his retirement at the end of the court's current term next week, opening the nation's top judicial post for the first time in 19 years and setting up a potentially savage nomination battle.

White House officials have prepared for the prospect by culling long lists of possible candidates, poring through old cases and weighing a variety of factors from judicial philosophy to age. Bush and his inner circle have had tightly held deliberations and no one can say for sure whom he might pick for chief justice, but outside advisers to the White House believe the main candidates are federal appeals Judges John G. Roberts and J. Michael Luttig and possibly Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

For a time, many officials and analysts in Washington assumed that Gonzales, a longtime Bush confidant and his first-term White House counsel, had been ruled out as a candidate because he took over the Justice Department in February. But in recent days, several advisers with close ties to the White House said Bush appears to be considering Gonzales, after all.

[izzie]

1. Well who knows what Bush will do. I think the man will =====

have to equal the same thinking as Bush and that is a thing nightmares are made from. In a round about way I knew something about Clarence and was told that he was even worse than Hill said. A really dirty type man. So?