Alito's pick squashes the notion the Supreme Court is a sort of super-legislature. We don't need to supplant the elected bodies by conforming PC notions of representation upon the judiciary. The more I look at Alito, the more I like what I see. I felt deeply ambivalent and then unenthusiastic and then hostile to Miers. My reaction to the new nominee is very different. He has an established judicial philosophy and a long paper trail. You already know how he's ruled and you know how he's going to decide cases in the future. The Left of course is free to object. But they didn't win this election. Bush did and that to my mind, made all the difference this morning.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
I felt deeply ambivalent and then unenthusiastic and then hostile to Miers. My reaction to the new nominee is very different. He has an established judicial philosophy and a long paper trail. You already know how he's ruled and you know how he's going to decide cases in the future.
That about sums up my view as well.