Tim Grieve has a good take on this morning's NYT article about the Bush team asking the religious right to tone down its rhetoric in advance of his nomination to the Supreme Court, especially regarding Alberto Gonzales, who most conservatives find too iffy on abortion to stomach.
Grieve says this is all a game to make it look like Bush is resisting his base. And he makes his point:
Does this sort of perception game matter? Of course it does. Just ask yourself this: How is it that, over the last few days, you've found yourself wondering whether Alberto Gonzales would be such a bad justice after all?He's right! If you'd told me a week ago that Bush would name Gonzales to the Court, I'd have been aghast; today I'd probably leap for joy that it wasn't Luttig or McConnell or Janice Rogers Brown. Such is the expectations game being played with those of us who follow these things.
But will Bush actually name Gonzales? I shudder as I say this--he is the guy who found a way to make torture legal, after all--but I hope that Bush's base has pissed him off enough with their demands that he gives them the finger by giving the country the not-quite-as-conservative Gonzales. We shall see...
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