The Alternative Universe: A REALLY Scary Place

Okay, so it's now been over a week since President Bush committed political suicide. I GET it, okay? He didn't want to keep being President, but couldn't stand seeing the brilliant intellectual John Effen Kerry win last November. Right? Makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah, that's got to be it. I mean, we know he just doesn't care about the future. That's why he gave us a new Chief Justice we didn't know much about until the hearings. He hates minorities. That's why he put Condie Rice in place of Colin Powell. Why we're stuck in the quagmire of Viet Nam Iraq. Why he was so slow to act before and after Katrina wiped out part of the Deep South. He lets Dick Cheney call all the shots, and Dick's been away for a while so he's had to make a few choices. That's why he tapped his two-bit lawyer friend from some third-rate law school to take O'Connor's swing-seat on the Supreme Court. Why he wants to ruin Social Security. Doesn't care about your kids' future. Hates old people. Wants Grandma to starve. Yeah, it all fits together. He's stupid. He wants the country to go into the dumper. He's a right wing nut case. What other "well-reasoned" garbage can we throw on President Bush's funeral pyre?

I have read plenty of just that sort of intellectual vapidity all over the internet in the last week. The shocking thing is I've only been repeating the sort of chatter I've been reading on the supposedly conservative web sites. Some coming from bloggers and political commentators, but most coming in the form of responses from the so-called "readers" of those websites. Most who claim to be conservative or moderate. All because of the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

The meltdown is unlike anything I've ever seen before. It's like all of the dKos/DU/Michael Moore/Deaniac/Whacko-fringe-leftist rants have finally taken hold on the right. Therefore, it must be true: the left has won the intellectual war for the heart and soul of this country. Everyone hates Bush now. Or am I missing something here?

Just think where we'd be now if George W. Bush had not been reelected last November. I can tell you where: we'd be talking about President Kerry's pick for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Hillary Clinton. And even though she's probably even less qualified from the standpoint of all of those measures being applied to Harriet Miers, you know the left would be rallying around the next superstar to join the Supreme Court, and the media would be falling all over itself proclaiming her again as "the smartest woman in America -- if not the WORLD". No doubt. By the way, she'd be joining the court along with previously nominated and approved intellectual Laurence Tribe, who was tapped to fill the O'Connor seat when she announced her retirement. Yeah. Just think about that for a minute before you keep up the dumping on President Bush and Harriet Miers. Do you really think his choice is such a bad thing, now?