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Did we ever here an admission of error from this person concerning CJ Roberts?
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=66

It was a foolish article at the time and it’s foolish now.

I gotta disagree, amigo. Ann Coulter's article claims nothing about Roberts, except to say that nothing was known about him. It complains about stealth nominations when

1) a fight on the facts and issues would be playing to our strength;

2) we have (or rather, "had," alas) a majority in the Senate.

I believe Roberts is turning out splendidly, but the issue was an important one to raise. Ann more or less single-handedly got Harriet Miers withdrawn, which I think was a good thing. Maybe Pres. Bush was correct to play a stealth card with Roberts, considering how weak the Senate RINOs were, but I thought the column represented an important "bully pulpit" consideration.

Prudence dictates taking a safe or aggressive strategy, depending on circumstances. It may be that if the GOP had been more willing to pick fights on the actual issues over the last 6 years, they'd still have control of Congress. We do have the truth on our side.

we have (or rather, "had," alas) a majority in the Senate.

A majority in the Senate and $5.00 gets you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

With the 'rats having utterly no respect for the Constitution or for Senate precedent, they blocked votes on judicial nominees for years. We never had 50 Senators willing to go "nucular" on them because our own "moderates" wouldn't want to lose their power. So we had to go stealth on the Senate, because the 'rats would have filibustered an openly conservative candidate.

We had 55 Republicans, but never 55 Conservatives or even 50.

GWB did a great job, and twenty-five years from now odds are Roberts will still be in the Big Chair. My question about Ann was not rhetorical. She should come out and give credit to the President where credit is due.

If there had been 70 'pub Senators and 60 Conservatives then her complaint would have been accurate. We may have the truth on our side, but we didn't have enough Senators worthy of our President. Even this very day, that 'rat Iraq Bill only passed because of Hagel and the other weasel. Add the others (Snowe, Collins, etc.) and it was a job just getting stealth nominees and Janice Rogers Brown through.