Erick at Red State agrees with my thoughts that the rumors about Owen and Gonzales are all misdirection.

The White House is doing an even better job of keeping the lid on this nominee than the last. That leads me to believe that all the outside chatter is meant to misdirect us from the actual nominee. I have said repeatedly here and elsewhere that Karl Rove and President Bush both believe one of the main reasons the Republicans have been so dominant since 2000, is because of a conservative base who think judicial victory is just around the corner. That to me means that we will see the President nominate a conservative -- perhaps not a Jones or a Garza, but a conservative of high professional reputation with a paper trail that does not contain the specific answer to the question "how definite has the nominee been on the issue of overturning Roe?"

Hence, my interest in Alice Batchelder. This sounds like an exact description of her.