"Elitist" is the label pinned on people who insist on merit, by people who are short on it. "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."
I have a great deal of respect for Krauthammer. Reaching down to the depth of my anger is yes, we didn't get to pronounce why we want a conservative justice. We didn't get to argue the fact in the senate. The nation needs to know why Republicans vote the way the do. But then, the co-chair of the GOP / Republican party, Jo Ann Davidson is proudly pro-abortion, so possibly the shift in the party has started and this is payoff for Ms. Davidson delivering Ohio to President Bush. Nothing is beyond the imagination at this point.
But, the point that galls me the most is this: When I heard the nomination of Harriett Meirs and I listened and read the conservative frustration and anger I thought to myself immediately. How would the White House calm down the conservatives? They would put out a story she is an Evangelical Christian. What infuriates me the most is that is what the White House did! They used the Christians by not telling us why she is qualified, but that we should accept her because she is in 'our club'... This is the most appalling of all. I feel used in the election and used now. You put pro-abortion Davison in the head of the party, you put out a Supreme Court Justice candidate that the Democrat leaders love...
I have a daughter who is really questioning why she shouldn't be a Democrat. I told her in August to watch in the coming months the debate in the Senate will explain in all over the Supreme Court choice. It will clearly define black and white and why Republicans stand for something different. There will be no debate, President Bush saw to that. The lines are becoming so blurred I am becoming to be at a loss to what to tell her now. We aren't standing for those principles the party once did. The party has been taken over and the Meirs is most likely the nail in the coffin.