Washington Post:

“Judging by the names the White House floated by political allies in recent days, Bush seems ready to pick a candidate with a long track record of conservative jurisprudence — one who would mollify the Republican base, whose opposition to Miers’s nomination helped scuttle her chances. Several GOP strategists said the most likely choice seemed to be federal appeals judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., with judges J. Michael Luttig and Alice M. Batchelder also in the running.”

Found this article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/flannery200507190731.asp

Excerpt:
“In the presidential debate last year at Washington University, candidate George W. Bush explained his philosophy for picking judges. He announced that he would select individuals “who would not allow their personal opinion[s] to get in the way of the law” — individuals who would interpret the Constitution, rather than legislate from the bench. With Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement, we have the first high-stakes test of President Bush’s promise. To fulfill this promise, President Bush could do no better than to appoint one of the less-known jurists whose name recently has been bandied about in the press: Judge Alice Batchelder — a judge who has made a career of applying the law rather than imposing her own policy preferences.”

Now he can give them someone like Owen, and they damn well better fight, no matter how bloody it gets, or keep still if the next nominee is Minnie Ha Ha.