In the Interests of Completeness . . .
I've been cross-blogging over at Confirm Them. This morning, in response to this post, I wrote:
In response to the post immediately below: If those of us in the conservative movement want to fight among ourselves over the Miers nomination, it's our right. But we must realize that, as a result, there's going to be a lot of gleeful (and, it goes without saying, inaccurate) coveraged by a delighted MSM.
I couldn't agree more that this isn't an internecine war between social conservatives and some other kind. In fact, there are social conservatives of good conscience in good standing on both sides. And it isn't about any kind of religious bigotry against Harriet Miers.
The real divide isn't even between those who oppose and those who support Ms. Miers, in my view. At the moment, the divide is between those who oppose Ms. Miers now, and those who want more information before attacking or are willing to support her unless they learn something disqualifying. Any of those positions are perfectly comprehensible.
The problem is that some -- not all, some -- of those who oppose Ms. Miers have done so by denigrating her legal skills and background. That's where the charge of elitism comes from (and from comments like this one, rightfully mocked by the plain-spoken Beldar). And it's unfortunate, given (as I noted below), that many of them were some of the same people who honorably, and correctly, defended Justice Thomas from spurious charges that he was underqualified for the Court.
In response to the post immediately below: If those of us in the conservative movement want to fight among ourselves over the Miers nomination, it's our right. But we must realize that, as a result, there's going to be a lot of gleeful (and, it goes without saying, inaccurate) coveraged by a delighted MSM.
I couldn't agree more that this isn't an internecine war between social conservatives and some other kind. In fact, there are social conservatives of good conscience in good standing on both sides. And it isn't about any kind of religious bigotry against Harriet Miers.
The real divide isn't even between those who oppose and those who support Ms. Miers, in my view. At the moment, the divide is between those who oppose Ms. Miers now, and those who want more information before attacking or are willing to support her unless they learn something disqualifying. Any of those positions are perfectly comprehensible.
The problem is that some -- not all, some -- of those who oppose Ms. Miers have done so by denigrating her legal skills and background. That's where the charge of elitism comes from (and from comments like this one, rightfully mocked by the plain-spoken Beldar). And it's unfortunate, given (as I noted below), that many of them were some of the same people who honorably, and correctly, defended Justice Thomas from spurious charges that he was underqualified for the Court.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:17 PM
1 Comments:
While there may be some who object to Miers for elitist or sexist reasons, I think the vast majority of the dissent is due to her weak qualifications when there were obviously many, many others who were clearly more qualified and more deserving. In my view, this is the clear source of the angst which has nothing to do with Miers personally.
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