At 02:33 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Presidents do not appoint people in a vacuum. The people who advise
>the presidents know the consequences of terribly stupid decisions. So,
>Bush, in such a divided country, without dare to appoint another
>Clarence Thomas.
also, the Congressional Democrats are much more alert to the problem of
people like Scalia, Renquist, and Thomas. I'm not sure Gore is, though,
since he voted for Scalia.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine