Alan Keyes: Bush Picks Stealth Nominees To Protect Pro-Abortion Republicans In The Senate

Alan Keyes, writing in WorldNetDaily, offers some insight into the President's unfortunate inclination to nominate stealth nominees to the Supreme Court:

Many conservatives cannot understand why President George W. Bush has taken the stealth approach in his selection of nominees for the Supreme Court. After all, we have what appears to be a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. If the Democrats trash highly qualified nominees because their thinking reflects the president's judgment instead of the Democrat Party platform, it won't be hard to convince the public that they are simply trying to achieve through intimidation what they couldn't achieve at the ballot box in the last presidential election. Senate hearings in which an experienced, articulate conservative jurist took on the Democrats in front of the entire nation would also offer a unique teaching moment that could solidify public understanding of the constitutional crisis brought on by years of liberal arrogance in the federal judiciary. Republicans should be of one voice saying, "Bring it on!"

The broad conservative reaction against the Miers nomination is now being characterized by the mainstream media as the work of right-wing extremists. This provides cover for the real culprits in this scenario – the eight or so abortion-minded Republican senators who will be put in the spotlight if the president nominates an impressive conservative jurist. Will Arlen Specter and the other Republicans like him stand firm with the president, or join the abortion minded Democrat minority to provide the margin that derails such a nominee? The administration's stealth approach allows these Republicans to avoid taking a stand that would outrage the Republican grass roots, while it camouflages the leftist priorities that separate Sen. Specter and the others from the majority of their fellow Republicans.

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My Comments:
That's an interesting take, and one which I believe has much validity.

Let's just hope Dubya has learned his lesson and will choose from one of the outstanding potential nominees with clear records of judicial conservatism.