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I'm seriously beginning to consider that you are putting me on here. No sane human being could possibly be this consistently obtuse. First, because there is a difference between friendly relationships with co-workers, and personal friendships. With the possibly exception of Justice Breyer, Justice Thomas is not particularly close with any of the liberal justices. Second, because, like it or not, Confirmation to SCOTUS requires a level of education and professional experience that disqualifies "intellectual lightweights." You and I may disagree with every word that comes out of Justice Sotomayor's mouth, but until you manage to graduate suma cum laude from Princeton, and edit the Yale Law Journal, you're simply not qualified to pronounce the woman an "intellectual lightweight." Compared to Justice Scalia, sure, but not to you, and certainly not to DC in general.

BTW, you need to learn the differnce between an opinion of what Justice (say it "Justice," not Mr.) Thomas thinks, and an obersvation of what the Justice has himself said, which is a matter of public record.

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You are the one being obtuse.

You cannot make the distinction between a “fool” and an “intellectual lightweight”

You, not me, are saying that Sotomayor, or the liberal justices are intellectual lightweights.

I compared them to fools that Thomas has to suffer daily.

That has been a distinction you have confused from the beginning of our conversation.

I have said Juan Williams is and always has been an intellectual lightweight. To me, he has no intellectual firepower, becasue he constantly sees things through his liberal and black glasses. He has done that consistently through his career.He is constantly schooled by his intellectual betters whenever he debates them, whether it is Hume, Malkin, or Krauthammer.

Fools are not necessarily stupid. Many are highly educated and intellectual heavywwights—but they are still fools none the less, becasue they believe in things that are folly.Book knowledge does not translate into intellgience or ability in all cases.

You have made the two things—fools and intellectual lightweights— equivalent, confusing the issue, and blaming me for your inability to make the distinction.

Sotomayor and Kagan are still fools for what they believe, for they believe in liberal lies instead of the truth and the law.

They have mastered intellectual reuirements for the positions they hold, but can anyone in their right mind say they are objective Constitutionalists? So they are intellectual heavywieghts, but fools nonetheless.

Now you may go back to being a Master of the Put-Down Universe, a role which you have heavily practiced.