Uhhh

I don't know which reality Darryl Stein inhabits, but it's not the one I live in.

But after what will be a smooth confirmation for Roberts, it seems unlikely that the Bush administration would turn again to someone like Clement—or Alberto Gonzalez, whose name, as the punch line of the recent joke goes, is Spanish for "Souter." The conservative base has not forgotten the turncoat jurist appointed by Bush Sr., and another such nominee would cost the party dearly in coming elections.

Uh... how dearly? How many voters actually know A) Souter is a justice on the Supreme Court, B) Souter was supposed to be a conservative, and C) Souter is a liberal? In a poliski 1 class I sat in on there weren't very many, and those are people who actually are interested. Normals just couldn't possibly care enough for this to matter. And the ones who do care aren't about to start voting Democrat even if they don't get their justice.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 9/12/2005 05:16:00 PM #
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