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I'm predicting William Pryor will be the next SCOTUS nominee.  Yes, he's another white man.  But BushCo tried to nominate a woman.  It's not his fault the stupid Senate couldn't see how fabulous she was.    Back to Pryor.  He's a loopy theocrat, which will thrill the ravenous base,  and his nomination will guarantee a gigantic fight with the Dems, which is just what the PR doctor ordered right about now.  Plus ever since I read that NYT Magazine story profiling the Constitution in Exhile people I haven't been able to get Pryor's name out of my head.  From the story:

Greve expressed cautious optimism that his views will get a sympathetic hearing from some of the federal appellate judges renominated this year by the president. He said he is especially happy that Bush has tapped William Pryor, the former attorney general of Alabama. Greve noted that in one of the big Supreme Court cases involving the limits of federal power, which ultimately invalidated parts of the Violence Against Women Act, Pryor wrote a brief that Greve and other libertarians greatly admired. ''Bill Pryor is the key to this puzzle; there's nobody like him,'' Greve said. ''I think he's sensational.  He gets almost all of it.''

"It" being the return of America to 1936.  Good times.   I know that he's valuable on the federal bench but BushCo won't have any trouble replacing him.  After the big SCOTUS fight, the Dems will probably have to agree to anything just to be allowed back in their offices.

My dark horse is  Michael McConnell for the same sort of reason.  I can't forget this bit from a David Sirota post:

Business cases, many concerning the reach of regulation and interaction of state and federal governments, consume a large chunk of the Supreme Court's docket.  Now for the first time, the National Association of Manufacturers, which represents big corporations, is creating a committee of executives to screen the business rulings of prospective nominees...Two lower-court judges have drawn interest in corporate circles because they represented companies on regulatory matters before going on the federal bench: John Roberts of the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals and Michael McConnell of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver...

That's a recommendation our corporate Congress can love.   So what if he supports a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw abortion?  That's litmus testing and we don't do that in America.

UPDATE: C'mon, people. Put your predictions in the comments. The worst that can happen is that you'll be wrong. And if the RW Noise Machine has taught us nothing else (and it hasn't) it's taught us that being wrong is only a mark of how right you really are.