July 06, 2005
Interesting-questions-to-which-we'll-never-know-the-answers
Dept.
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
How much of the purported conservative outrage over the potential Gonzales nomination is being deliberately ginned up by Karl Rove and his colleagues in order to make Gonzales, when nominated, look like a moderate? After all, Bush isn't up for re-election, so having some of the rank-and-file nutsos mad at him doesn't actually do him any harm, and no Republican Senator is actually going to vote against Gonzales if he's nominated. So, as far as I can see, the flap is pure gain for Bush.
