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Superman's product of the century (so far):
Most of my friends on the right are underwhelmed at President Bush's Harriet Miers SCOTUS pick to replace O'Connor.
I'm with Hugh Hewitt on this one though. Note his reference to the World Mag blog - starting here - and see the prior posts.
Perhaps it is telling that Miers is not a part of the legal insider intelligentsia. Our short public memory dis-remembers the left's strong opposition to Souter when Bush Sr. trusted his aides for that nomination. This President is trusting his own experience - not Harvard's or Yale's or SCOTUS clerk tracks - for this pick. W has proven to be brilliant time and time again against his critics and I believe this will be one more time, that in hindsight, will prove him once again.
Despite the hand-wringing - isn't it really striking that Bush's pick really is a demonstration of courage?
UPDATE: The Mighty Beldar (long time on my blogroll), is substantively refuting conservative hand wringing with facts. It does appear more and more to me that the core reason for the snide reactions we are seeing are rooted in legal elitism. A lawyer with actual business experience running a large law firm? A lawyer that has participated in an Evangelical church for 25 years? A lawyer that isn't part of the east coast and DC intelligentsia? In my book, that's the kind of brilliant diversity the court really needs. Once again, W is being misunderestimated.
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