[dufekin]

Gonzalez narrowly passed the Senate earlier this year for the attorney general position. He's too conservative for a Supreme Court seat. The Democrats have the votes to defeat. Try again; we need someone who will have spent his entire career as one with the liberals, but very privately is a conservative. Someone who now could consider Hillary Clinton a right-wing activist. Yeah, only someone that liberal could pass the Senate.

[Young Scholar]

Try again; we need someone who will have spent his entire career as one with the liberals, but very privately is a conservative.

You mean like David Souter?

[pepsionice]

Gonzalez has two pluses...he's already been passed by the senate (even narrowly, but still thats enough)...and he is a Latin. For Hillery to stand against the guy...and any other Democatic senator...they have to face questions back home and fear the cost of the Latino vote. In California, it matters.