[gobucks]

"The very fact that Harriet Miers is a member of an evangelical church suggests that she is not dying to be accepted by the beautiful people

I've rubbed elbows w/ the 'beautiful people' quite a bit. I can testify that all church goers are tolerable except for one group: evangelical church goers. The quiet laughter and tinkling wine glasses go dead silent when the topic of true blue bible thumpers comes up.

For some reason, they become terribly provoked - my own theory is that the 13 letters of Paul are words that make them choke. To have a woman who reads those letters making decisions on the SCOTUS? They must be sleeping fitfully.

[RoadTest]

"I've rubbed elbows w/ the 'beautiful people' quite a bit. I can testify that all church goers are tolerable except for one group: evangelical church goers. The quiet laughter and tinkling wine glasses go dead silent when the topic of true blue bible thumpers comes up."

What you bring up here is at the heart and soul of this issue. If the "evangelical church goers" ar doing what they ought to do, they'll be praying, because God is neither Republican nor a Democrat.

And some of us are rejoicing that The President has by-passed the usual routes-of-ascendency (Yale, Harvard) and picked someone with real values that mean something.

[MortMan]

I've rubbed elbows w/ the 'beautiful people' quite a bit. I can testify that all church goers are tolerable except for one group: evangelical church goers. The quiet laughter and tinkling wine glasses go dead silent when the topic of true blue bible thumpers comes up.

Do you mean "tolerable to the beautiful people"? (I'm feeling dense this morning)