Can you imagine anyone having said this about Clarence Thomas ?
Actually I can imagine it very well, because it WAS said about Clarence Thomas at the time of his nomination -- by DEMOCRATS.
And it was said by the whine and cheese set at National Review, though NR did tepidly support the Thomas nomination.
Clarence Thomas is one of our best justices, despite the apparent lack of a 'lifetime' of drilling in constitutional law prior to his nomination.
I believe Miers will turn out to be another Thomas.
Try this:
Armstrong Williams:
I say easy target because I was around during Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings. I remember that black Americans overwhelmingly supported his nomination. I was told about the focus group meetings during which Democrats discovered that they could discredit Thomas by labeling him unqualified and focusing on his marriage to a white woman. After that, every time a Democrat appeared on television, references to Thomas' wife and charges that Thomas was unqualified resulted. The Democrats tapped into a latent river of racism, and it worked. Everyone was suddenly willing to believe that this black man was some sort of pitiful mental defective. ....
And try this:
Soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Sunday that he could support Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia if President Bush nominates him to head the high court, but he bristled at the prospect that Bush could tap Scalia's colleague Clarence Thomas, calling him "an embarrassment."
But the top Senate Democrat turned insulting when it came to the prospect that Bush might tap the court's lone black justice, Clarence Thomas, for the top spot. "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court," the white Nevadan said, before deriding Thomas' intellect. "I think that his opinions are poorly written. I don't - I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice."
Same garbage happening here and now.