Brand X wrote:Isn't the task of appointing someone now going to be even worse?
IMO he has to get someone more conservative for his base(Religious Right) to support....
Hardly.
Bush is in such bad shape right now that he can't take any more hits from any direction, left or right. Look for a moderate-to-conserevative judge with a stellar rating, who is prepared to say that Roe vs Wade is "settled law", at the very rightmost.