[beyond the sea]

By arbitrarily excluding all men from consideration he engaged in exactly the sort of indefensible, noisome sexism that Laura is now accusing good conservatives of engaging in.

IF so, you make a good point.

[txrangerette]

Impossible that this could be a valid point.

President Bush nominates MEN all of the time. He also nominates women, Black women, Hispanic men and all that I may have failed to mention. These people have no point whatsoever, when they pretend that he "excluded men" simply because for this particular nomination he wanted to pick a woman.

Clarence Thomas was picked by Bush 41. He was deliberately picked by Bush 41 because of WHO he was, not solely due to his record. Others had better records, and one of them was named Edith Jones. Bush 41 had that right.

Conservatives love Clarence Thomas, but most of them posting against Miers and President Bush cannot stand Bush 41 or Bush 43 or Harriet Miers. Truly strange.

The "Bush excluded men" therefore he is sexist against men has to be one of the most stupid claims yet.