After Miers: A more compassionate Bush?

Lexington Green indulges in some speculation in the event of a Miers defeat.

Bush certainly has no reason or incentive to give the Conservative wing of his coalition anything they happen to want after they went to war with him on this. Bush is in many ways a "Nixonian" president, spending lots of money, relatively pro-Government, not particularly popular, polarizing, more interested in foreign policy than in domestic policy. Perhaps his response to this episode will be similarly Nixonian, "f*ck the Conservatives, they are a bunch of kooks."

I think we will see a much more "centrist" and "compassionate" President Bush hereafter, after having his throat cut by his own side. Why not? He is not running for anything again.