Elanor Clift of Newsweek muses that Judge John G. Roberts, who will soon be confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, may ultimately seek the White House:
Roberts has led such a charmed life that heading the Supreme Court may not be the end of the road for him . . . Roberts looks like William Holden, a Hollywood leading man when Ronald Reagan was still a B actor. A son of privilege with a Kennedyesque family, Roberts recalls the heady days of Camelot. He’s a man of great intellect, and in about 10 years time, maybe longer, he’ll be bored with the high court, and a Republican Party starved for charisma will draft him to run for president.Clift might be ignoring perhaps the most important reason: when he was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, Roberts was lead counsel for the NCAA. And has the NCAA ever lost, at anything? And does the NCAA not always get its way, even when its actions appear profoundly unfair? Talk about manifest destiny. If I were Larry King, I would end this post with something like, "John Roberts, President. Book it."
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