[Alberta's Child]

She may be a nut who belonged to a subversive organization, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated first in her class from Columbia Law School – and that was before Harriet Miers was applying to law school.

Ann Coulter has literally lost her mind. In her haste to diminish Miers' accomplishments and qualifications, she neglects to mention that a subversive b!tch and avowed Communist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be considered an exceptional Supreme Court nominee under the standards that Coulter has set for Miers.

[goldstategop]

That's her point - Ruth Bader Ginsburg has superb legal qualifications. Harriet Miers has none unless you count her friendship with the President and her sex. There's already a woman on the court. Did we need a quota pick? I know the answer to that question. I believe in merit and excellence. Miers may be a lovely and talented woman but what we've learned in two weeks is she doesn't have the resume to sit on our nation's highest court. Not alongside Ginsburg.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[GraniteStateConservative]

In her haste to diminish Miers' accomplishments and qualifications, she neglects to mention that a subversive b!tch and avowed Communist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be considered an exceptional Supreme Court nominee under the standards that Coulter has set for Miers.

Not an exceptional nominee, but, perhaps, exceptionally "qualified," at least when compared to Miers. Ann's point is that Miers doesn't even have basic things going for her. Bush is asking us to get over the fact that he nominated a woman to the SCOTUS who has little to offer up to us as to why she should be on the SCOTUS. Bush's rationale as to "why" is simply "because." Why should we accept that?

[185JHP]

"When the sun is high in that Texas sky she'll be buckin' on the SCOTUS!" (;<)

[Guenevere]

I heard (he was replacing John Gibson today) interview Ann, and I must tell you....I was majorly disappointed.

I know she can be excoriating .....but it's always, always been the Dems, the Liberal, the Anti's she excoriated.

It was too cruel hearing her use her tools against our team

[WOSG]

"She may be a nut who belonged to a subversive organization, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated first in her class from Columbia Law School – and that was before Harriet Miers was applying to law school."

Coulter is wrong. AC, you are right: Coulter's gone off the deep end here. I think this statement above ALONE is the BEST ARGUMENT FOR HARRIET MIERS I'VE HEARD IN A LONG TIME. Harriet's a real person in the real world. If she finds being Supreme Court justice a hard job - GOOD - because we want HUMBLE justices who believe in judicial restraint.

We know that Ginzberg is a dangerous elitist judicial tyrant. We know that she does damage to our democracy with every ruling. And yet, she's a brainy legal eagle who is 'qualified'? Qualified to do what, destroy the system of Government our founders created through legalistic subterfuge. Phooey!!

I have my doubts about Miers. I would have preferred a Luttig. But I'll take Miers over Ginsberg any day. And others, like Hugh Hewitt, have convincingly argued that you don't need years of cloistered study to get up to speed on the Constitution... It's NOT a long document after all. There are many key cases and issues, but you DONT NEED DECADES of experience, and her decades in business litigation and 4 years in the White House and several years in Dallas City council and running Texas ABA aint chopped liver.

Hell I'll take a C student from a mediocre school over Ginsburg or Souter or Stevens. And she is way above that.

Those whining about Miers "qualifications" know that folks like Powell and Souter were equally *un*qualified to sit on the bench. Folks like Clarence Thomas would be marginal in Coulter's eyes. Pity.

THE REAL REASON FOR CONCERN OVER MIERS IS NOT HER PAST QUALIFICATIONS BUT HER FUTURE PERFORMANCE. That performance is simply unknowable without her being a proven conservative jurist. I'm afraid Bush got us another O'Conner, when we need a Scalia. That is the one legitimate concern, and Coulter's rants about law schools, anti-anti-sexism, and IQ points etc. just muddy the waters.

[Taliesan]

subversive b!tch and avowed Communist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be considered an exceptional Supreme Court nominee under the standards that Coulter has set for Miers.

Bingo.

And the other point she just made -- without knowing it -- is that LSAT scores are a terrible indicator of your qualification to be a Supreme Court nominee.

[FreedomFighter1013]

Last I checked, Ms. Coulter made her living as an author. And, for an author to eat, she must sell books (to us poor, simple-minded, 2nd-tier college chad). Apparently a 170 LSAT score makes you so smart you trash your own customer base. That's a novel marketing plan.

I'm glad to know what Ann thinks about my poor, pathetic Drew and Rutgers diplomas or is it dimplomai? (Get me a Latin majorette.)

Ditto our dour Catholic martyr, Peggy Noonan

[Dan Evans]

Communist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be considered an exceptional Supreme Court nominee under the standards that Coulter has set for Miers.

Nonsense. Ann would never have supported Ginsberg. Ann has made it clear that legal expertise is a necessary but not a sufficient requirement for a justice. They should also have a record of support for strict adherence to the Constitution.