"Well alrighty, then I guess we agree, we'll wait for the hearings to learn more about the nominee."
The problem is that the hearings are little more than a dog and pony show where senators ask 5 minute long, well, we'll call them "questions", in order to get on the news back home. Very little is learned there.
That's why it's not nice to have a stealth candidate be put up for a lifetime appointment. The hearings will be largely useless, except for the democrats to make fools out of themselves again.
Up until the advent of TV(1950's) there were no nominee hearings.
The judicial candidates thought it beneath them to be grilled by Senators.
They may have had their own hearings but the nominees did not attend.
Since no one knows his nominee as well as he does I'm gonna stick with Bush until I learn otherwise. Maybe he's ahead of all of us, eh?