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Bloomberg reports: “President George W. Bush selected former Senator Fred Thompson, a lawyer in real life and on television, to advise the eventual nominee in the anticipated Senate confirmation fight to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Thompson “will guide the nominee through the confirmation process from the time that person is nominated to the Judiciary Committee meetings to the time that the nominee receives a fair vote on the floor of the Senate,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters traveling today with the president to a summit of world leaders in Gleneagles, Scotland.

McClellan said Thompson, a Tennessee Republican, would be an “informal” adviser to the nominee, similar to a role filled by former Senator John Danforth when Clarence Thomas won narrow confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1991.

Smart move by Bush. Thompson is a great man for the job.

Now, maybe Americans will tune in to the nomination show, instead of having the channel changed by liberal Democrats.

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