Reply #32: Ann Coulter [View All]

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also insists that Miers is not intelligent enough, not distinguished, too average. However there's a difference between intellectual elites (usually what you want in a judge) and rich & privileged elites, who can be of average intelligence. Dubya (rich and cunning, but not wise) chose her...and there are a lot of 'average" people who rose through the Neo-con ranks. We are obviously suffering under the rule of small-minded reactionaries. It could be argued that selection of Miers is indeed "choosing one of their own." Anyway I think David Brooks is using what he thinks is a Liberal opinion as a smokescreen, to unify the forces against Miers...

How do you even begin to talk about a person whose positions and philosophy are obscure and whose verbal style would appear to be incomprehensible? Yes Brooks has taken them out of context, but even so, they may be illustrative. I think it's possible that the Right sees her as a weak choice who would put in a poor performance and not be as useful to them as they would like. In other words I think their objections go beyond the issues of elitism. She's too much of an unknown for them (and Dubya's personal pick, it would seem). I think they worry that she will just be ineffectual in realizing the rightwing agenda.