"It comes from her July 25, 2005, column entitled "Souter In Roberts' Clothing" though like the famous not-quite-a-quote Al Gore-ism about inventing the Internet "closet Souter" is simply an honest condensation of what she actually wrote using a lot more words."
No, it is a DIS-honest condensation. Since Coulter's complaint about Roberts was NOT he was a liberal (like Souter) but that we didn't know anything about him (like Souter).
There is a world of difference between saying that we should be wary about giving a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful positions in the country to an unknown figure. And saying that the guy IS a liberal like David Souter turned out to be.
But I'm sure you will be careful to not misrepresent her sentiments from that column henceforth.
No, it is an HONEST condensation.
There is a world of difference between saying that we should be wary about giving a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful positions in the country to an unknown figure, and saying that because the figure is PERSONALLY unknown to the complainer he or she MIGHT be a liberal like David Souter turned out be on the theory that the Bush Administration had learned NOTHING from the Souter debacle when in fact they had given EVERY indication to date that for the first time in Republican Party history they might have this problem solved (and nothing has happened since to suggest Coulter was right to be suspicious about him). It was thus both an insult to the integrity of Roberts and to the intelligence of Bush based on NOTHING other than the sort of elitism and sense of superiority that Coulter rightly rips the Left a new one over every single day.
But I'm sure you will be careful to not misrepresent her sentiments from that column henceforth.
Another problem I have with Ann's arguing that Roberts MIGHT be a Souter is that since I rather doubt she was really stupid enough to BELIEVE it, it amounts to a distracting and dishonest justification for her REAL complaint, which is that she wanted an in-your-face cage-match with the liberals. At some level I'd have liked that, too, but (like the President I'm guessing) I thought it was more important to WIN than to merely have the satisfaction. I would have thought better of Ann if she simply ADMITTED that without finding it necessary to cast doubt where none was justified.