This is one of the weakest support articles yet. But, let's (hopefully for the last time) put a nail in the insulting "her critics must be elitist" charge. From the list of people actually qualified to sit on the Court (and who actually have an established originalist judicial philosophy): Judge Michael Luttig: U. of Virginia Law School; Judge Emilio Garza: U. of Texas Law School; Judge Edith Hollans Jones: U. of Texas Law School; Judge Michael McConnell: U. of Chicago Law School; J. Harvie Wilkinsen: U. of Virginia; Edith Brown Clement: Tulane; Judge Karen Williams: U. of South Carolina Law School; Judge Alice Batchelder: U. of Akron Law School/ U. of Virginia Law School; Judge Priscilla Owens: Baylor University Law School; Judge Janice Rogers Brown: U. of California Law School/U. of Virginia Law School; Judge Emilio: Yale Law School.
Eleven judges, one "Ivy League" law school. We're hardly a bunch of elitists. We just expect someone actually qualified to sit on the Court to be named to fill openings. We also expect that the President demonstrate the same loyalty to his conservative base by honoring his campaign promises to appoint judges "in the mold of Thomas and Scalia".
The best the White House can offer in support of this nominee is to demean the critics (a Liberal tactic, not coincidentally) or to offer up her lover as a character witness. Oh...and of course, the "Trust me" gambit.
All of that is fine and dandy. Now explain how you will get any of those nominees through a rat/rino infested Senate.It ain't gonna happen and GW knew that long before you posted the list.You have to consider who he has to deal with, and it's not a pretty sight.