At every stage of Scalia's life he accomplished more than I did. As hard as my personal shortcomings are to swallow, he is a better man than me in many ways. I want such persons on the SC, not mediocrities.
Ditto that. It's not simply a matter of what school you went to---it's also a matter of what you managed to do with what you learned in school that counts.
I've had it up to here with this "elitism" talk, particularly given the cynicism and hypocrisy of the people making the charge: Harriet Miers isn't an "elitist" pick in the most narrow sense of the word, as being chosen from the "elite" of Bush's White House Staff and---pardon the expression...it's more just than the term "elitist"---cronies?