"I'm glad another woman wasn't nominated. Don't want every USSC seat assigned an affirmative action minority status from here to eternity."
I agree. If he's better than Janice Rogers Brown, I'd be delighted. But considering what Laura Bush had said, and how feebly Team Bush reacted to Laura, the point is begging to be made.
Taken in context, Laura Bush was correct. It WAS possible, as she was asked, that there was an element of sexism in the reaction to Harriet Miers. It was not only possible, it happened.
Before Laura ever said a word, I noticed the demeaning comments, clearly gender-based, from some of Harriet's immediate bashers. They literally raised my hackles and sickened me. I was sorry to be associatiated with such people by being on the same website.
If you did not see that, you are willingly ignorant and blind. It was literally everywhere. You could not look around without seeing it coming out of the woodwork like roaches. I will proudly stand up for Laura taken in the context of what she said.
Nor am I angry that Laura said she would like to see a woman named. You are free to disagree with her. But there isn't anything wrong with her saying it. Ruth Bader G. is now the only woman on a Court of nine, and she is an embarrassingly flaming Lib.
I don't like that myself, and I will never apologize to you or anyone else for that view.