Thanks Ann!

I suspect Ann Coulter just handed future Supreme Court Justice John Roberts his best chance of getting confirmed:

We don’t know much about John Roberts. Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives. Never. Not ever... Oh, yeah...we know he's argued cases before the supreme court. big deal; so has Larry Flynt's attorney.

This could be a brilliant head fake. Something designed to tamp down the left's well-funded lying hate machine that's just begun to warm up. Regardless, it will certainly help conservative talking heads to diffuse the coming "Right wing extremist" talk. Can't you hear them:

"If he's everything you're accusing him of, why is Ann Coulter so opposed to him?"

Here are my initial thoughts on the kind of justice Roberts will be:

Here you have a nominee who's 50 years old. That means he's young enough to have seen and learned from the Bork and Thomas hearings. That means he's young enough to have not created a career paper trail filled with landmines Ted Kennedy can jump on.

I suspect Roberts is very conservative in the Clarence Thomas mold. I suspect Bush knows this. I suspect the Democrats do as well. And I also suspect Roberts has been planning his whole career for this moment and is well-positioned to get on the court and tip it strongly our way.

Comments

[salt1907]

But this time we have the weapons to deactivate the "landmines." We didn't need a stealth candidate. We could have won on the merits. If all of your suspicions prove correct, I will owe many people an apology in 20 years. Click on my name.

[Dr. Hackenbush]

Dirty Harry, I agree that Ann has missed the boat here. I don't think having her against us will really help get Roberts confirmed, but I do feel she is just way off to compare Roberts to Souter. I've posted about this myself. There just isn't any comparison.

[salt1907]

It is not just Souter that set the precedent. It was also Warren, Brennan, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy - ALL of which are Republican appointees.