"And the Rah-Rah crowd continues to think there is some strategy to selecting a SC justice based SOLELY on gender. Fill the quota, and screw the conservative base."
I guess I must be part of the "Rah-Rah" crowd.
I'm a woman, and I don't give a rip whether the President nominates a woman or a minority. I want him to nominate the best person for the job, and if that person happened to be another white male, that would be perfectly fine with me. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the SC has to have a particular makeup or distribution.
At this point, based on Bush's previous judicial nominations, I choose to trust what he has done here and see how this plays out.
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