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Gonzales as AG

Peter Mulhearn thanks John Ashcroft, and comments on Alberto Gonzales:

Gonzales is loyal to the President, which is a very good thing in an Attorney General. He is not ideologically conservative, but that matters much less in an AG than it would in a Supreme Court Justice. If Gonzales runs the DOJ competently and supports his President loyally conservatives will have no cause for complaint.

The AG appointment may be something of a disappointment for Gonzales. It almost certainly means President Bush won't nominate him to the Supreme Court. Conservatives would never have given him anything more than tepid support in a Supreme Court nomination fight. Democrats would probably have sunk him. His term as White House Counsel made him too closely associated with the war on terror to slide past Senate Democrats and onto the Court. A few years as AG will make him radioactive.

Mulhearn was born to blog.