I doubt YOU have the mental fortitude to make such a presumption of her abilities or how she will judge in two years.
My God people are just so comfortable in bypassing her past history of achievement and then denouncing her as some old lady cowering in the corner. It is almost the same attitude as on the left where the presumption is that african-americans are unable to achieve without affirmative action.
Please!
In a stunning discovery Thursday, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was found to have a critical role in the writing of “Blackstone’s Commentaries,” the legendary Bible of English common law, long regarded as the standard authority for lawyers. Her name arose as the result of an Oxford study which revealed her to be William Blackstone’s ghost-writer.
Reaction of Washington insiders was mixed. Evangelicals praised her intellectual. credentials, but a staffer for Sen. Patrick Leahy said the senator was concerned whether or not Ms. Miers could be impartial in suits affecting British interests, specifically, “any case involving the English language.”
Senator Charles Schumer stated, “So what if she was a crony of Blackstone. This still does not put her name up there with the best legal minds. After all, Blackstone was the authority on the COMMON law, not the elite law.”
Senator Edward Kennedy said he had never heard of Blackstone and that this new development would, at the very least, deepen the quagmire in Iraq.
"My God people are just so comfortable in bypassing her past history of achievement and then denouncing her as some old lady cowering in the corner."
Strawman. We aren't denouncing her as some old lady cowering. Why does your side need to resort to fallacy to prop up their arguments?
We don't think she's stupid. She is intellegent. But not enough to serve on SCOTUS.
"It is almost the same attitude as on the left where the presumption is that african-americans are unable to achieve without affirmative action."
Missed this one. We don't care about her gender, so why play that card? The only similarity here is that you resemble Jesse Jackson - quick to call bigotry where none exists, because you can't counter with facts and logic.