Potporri

Yall really do. Some of the funniest things to read on other blogs is when people who attempt to voice an opnion on an issue and end up looking foolish in doing so. This typically occurs when someone has very little information on a topic and then attempts to try to inform the world of their opinion. Let me give you an example.

As I am sure yall know, Harriet Miers has been nominated by Bush to be the next Supreme Court nomination. Miers has spent most her career as a lawyer but has not held a job as an elected or appointed judge. While it is not a requirement, most supreme court nominations have spent some time on the federal or state judge level. To be quite frank, very little information has been revealed about her.

So what do many pundints come up with? They say how she will make a horible judge. This is not based on her expierence, but on... well. They do not actually say. Many of these "bloggers" (I use the term loosly) like to say that Bush is only appointing people he knows. Whats hilarious to read is the way these people moan and bitch and claim that Bush ia a misogynist when he nominates the very qualified Roberts. Then when he nominates a woman, they bitch and moan that they attack her choice of attire etc. If THAT is the most you have to complain about, you should take a good look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if YOU are looking your best. My bet is that you arent.

But it is not just that. There are other great comments that I read. One great one is that "there are not enough minorities on the Supreme Court". Wow. What a truly condescending comment. The person who writes this comment is saying that we need to add minority justices in some sort of "quota system". What a horrible idea. Whatever happened to the idea of taking the most qualified, the best, or the most appropriate person?

Oh here is another one I like: There should some "real Black people on the supereme court" When asked what about Clarence Thomas, the answer is always that he is not "really black". Interesting isnt it? So the man decides to see things in a conservative viewpoint and he is not a "real black man". So what you are saying is that all black people should vote in a certain way or they are not really black? So apperently ethnicity is now decided by political ideology! Apperently Colin Powell and Condi Rice are also not black. According to Orwell, they would be described by these "intellects" as "UnBlack"!!!

The fact of the matter is that the people who are whining and bitching are the people that were losers in the 2004 Presidential election. They backed an incredibly weak candidate and now they are expecting Bush to listen to their preferences for Superme Court Justice. Afterall, why should he? He won the election and with it, the support of the majority to see things his way. Clinton had the same power when he installed Breyer and Ginsberg.

The simple fact of the matter is, all of this reduces to politics. These "intellectuals" do not really have anything to say about Miers. The fact is they are irriated that their candidate lost in 2004. The fact is that they need to get their party to select a GOOD candidate. The fact of the matter is that you need a person who can appeal to your base without irritating moderate voters. You must cherry pick moderates in order to win. Kerry did not give moderates a good reason to vote for him, and if the Dems want the White House back they would be well advised to choose a Left-Centrist candidate. If they follishly decide on Hillary Clinton, they might split the party beyond repair...