Via Atrios:
At best Judge Roberts is a pampered white guy who had quite a bit of snarky contempt for anyone who wasn't and had little empathy for anyone outside his social circle, at worst, well, he's quite a lot worse than that.
-Atrios 7:14 PM
I don't have much to add but this. He's an elitist. And isn't that unamurican? (snark) Why hasn't this been our argument?
it's non political, the kind of argument every american would relate to.
he's been deep inside the deepest of small circles of inner washington republican politics for his entire adult life. he doesn't have a clue about the average citizen's day. or how important those small, pesky personal rights we count on in the constitution are to those of us who don't have a million dollars in the bank.
yes, he's intellectually superb. but is it more brains and pedigree we need on the court or more common sense, more common man? in this case, we can and should negate the left vs right argument altogether.
big brains, supposedly, got us into iraq, got us into huge national debts again and we aren't one iota safer today than we were on 9/11 and deep down every american knows that too.
it's common sense we need more of these days, and that's what we should be willing to fight for.