[I]t is an argument about who leads the conservative movement and the GOP. The president does ....
Please go to HH's site to get the context and to verify HH's opinion that the President "leads the conservative movement ...."
HH is wonderful, and I wish the President would nominate him for the SC, but this is the quality of argument the Miers' supporters are throwing about, and they really do not know how deeply insulting and offensive it is. It is just as insulting as eliciting our support by saying Miers is a Christian.
The President is NOT the leader of the conservative movement. There is NO leader of the conservative movement. There never has been, not even Buckley or Reagan.
This is just more of the rah rah rah, follow the Great Leader, you are a traitor and (insert others insults) argument that the pro-Miers folks are confined to making. Oh yes ... and, "look at all those folks who support her ... shouldn't you be supporting her too?"
HH gave this nomination a B+ as soon as it came out (and btw, you will not hear Hugh refer to his grade again, because it undercuts his subsequent "arguments" which depend on ignorance as their central premise). My sense when I read that was that HH knew immediately what a flop this nomination was, and realized the need to spin, spin, spin.
Now we have the Leader argument. Truly pathetic, and truly saddening, all the way around.
Please go to HH's site to get the context and to verify HH's opinion that the President "leads the conservative movement ...."