CBS News and some Twitter feeds are reporting that Gov. Brian Sandoval has asked not to be considered for the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the anti-Scalia Left was giddy that President Obama might have outfoxed the Stupid Party again. See this post on SL&P.
So much for that.
I don't know the reason he withdrew so quickly. One could be that White House Counsel's Office discovered some scandal or conflict of interest that was going to be a problem. Another could be that the hydraulic pressure within the Democratic Party is demanding an aggressively far Left candidate. A third is that the White House did some calls yesterday and figured out, correctly, that it couldn't hoodwink enough Republican senators to get Sandoval through.
The optimist in me would like to think that Gov. Sandoval sat down with himself and concluded that, for adept as he might be as a state politician, he has nothing approaching the learning, intellect, or legal compass to qualify him to succeed a giant like Antonin Scalia.
If that's it, my hat is off to Brian Sandoval.
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