Did The White House Blow It With Roberts?

So argues Mickey Kaus - the idea being they wasted such an unassailable candidate by using him to replace the conservative Rehnquist rather than the MOR O'Connor. Perhaps. But I think they blew it on a much more fundamental level - by having Roberts grovel, equivocate, and prevaricate his way around his prior writings and judicial philosophy, they gave in to the basic premise that conservative views are shameful - not the kinds of opinions civilized people admit to holding.