"Elitist" is the label pinned on people who insist on merit, by people who are short on it.
True for the most part, except for wealthy liberals who got where they were without merit.
BS.
BS.
Average Americans have historically hated self proclaimed "Elitists".
People who are short of it describes about 95% of the US population. The majority rules. Get over it.
And who then use their merit to give us abominations like Roe v. Wade, because with their merit, they were able to find penumbras where none existed before.
I guess I'm a moron shoert of merit, because I've read the entire Constitution time and time again, and for the life of me I can't spot that penumbra. Maybe I need to pass the paper over a candle so it appears. Maybe I need to go back to school and learn how to give words new meaning.
No, an "elitist" is someone who accepts a resume as shorthand for merit.
In this case, her "merit" is not known to either of us. Her "merit" lies in her views on the Constitution, and those are largely unknown outside the POTUS' inner circle.
You may argue that the pick is poor BECAUSE we cannot evaluate her, but that is quite a different argument.
Since we KNOW, beyond a doubt, that the right resume has zero correlation to an ability to read the plain meaning of words, we KNOW that her resume, or lack of one, is immaterial to her merit to serve on the Court.
What's more, this lack of correlation has been a centerpiece of conservative criticism of court picks for decades now.
Now, suddenly, it is important that a court pick be "accomplished"?
I don't care if she is "accomplished". I want her to be a good judge. THE LAST 50 YEARS OF SCOTUS HISTORY DEMONSTRATES THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO.
So, given that, what to do?
Answer: pick someone who is competent in the law but who you know PERSONALLY will read the document the way it is written. And that is what Bush did.
"Elitist" is the label I pin on people who have an arrogant disdain for what "ordinary" people want: like no homosexual "marriage" and a stop to illegal immigration, and overrule the voters, because, after all, "they know best."