These people are Northeastern elitist snobs.
Does this make them wrong? Are you not just speaking from the vantage point of another sort of snobbery?
"These people are Northeastern elitist snobs."
Thats Bull. And a vain attempt to attack the messenger. I read NRO daily and love it - and I'm a Texas redneck.
Miers is way out of her depth. I don't think she's capable of writing a dissenting opinion that won't be laughed at in Austin.
Face it, she was a bad pick for SCOTUS. I hope she's defeated so we can nominate someone of Scalia's or Bork's caliber.
Poderoretz.. Elitist?!? Snob?!? Bwaaaaahaha!! That's utterly ridiculous.
Excuse me but Podhoretz is the kind of guy you'd meet at the local bowling alley or pool hall.
BTW, throwing the 'elitist' canard at CONSERVATIVES who won't drink the Kool-Aid is becoming tiresome. No... make that HAS become tiresome.
I am very anti-Miers but I must admit that the fact that neo-cons like Pody, Billy Boy, and the Frummer Boy don't like her makes me wonder if I am on the right side.
For all of you who are regurgitating this line about the "beltway snobs" (not meaning to single you out, Xenia), you should be aware of two things:
You are helping to spread a Whitehouse talking point. You didn't come up with this--they did. And they are very happy that you've decided to run with it. Yeah, down with the elites! We need normal, everyday people!
It's convenient, and appealing, but it's a straw argument. If Harriet's downhome-iness and regular person-ness makes her appealing as a SC judge, let's get a real salt-of-the-earth personage--what about the above-average intelligent guy who runs the Meineke near me? He's smart as a whip, in an unschooled way, and actually spouts real wisdom now and then. I recall him saying he went to community college for a semester--no way is HE an elitist! I can actually think of at least one way in which he is superior: He is avowedly pro-life, and will tell you that bluntly, without "parsing," in about a minute after having met you. But I guess Bush hasn't known him for decades.
#2: So many here are hammering Krauthammer, Podhoretz and so many others on this...and yet most of us seemed to agree with most of what most of them said most of the time in the past, didn't we? Hmmmm....
So, I take it you were against the nomination of John Roberts?
but I am concerned about Souter-2....