Reply #7: You mean, be like their voters [View All]

[question everything]

This is what was so nice about the Clinton Gore ticket - two high scholastic achievers who were proud of it. This was after the mediocrity of Reagan and Quayle and after papa Bush tried hard to hide any education that he had.

Even the Conservative who objects to Miers, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x165837 has this comment

"If the liberal jurisprudential establishment emerged from elite schools and journals and spoke in large words and grand theory, the thinking might go, it can only be tamed by reaching outside the Washington-New York intelligentsia to let some Texas common sense cut them down to size.

But law, unlike politics, is inescapably an intellectual exercise, and reason is the bedrock of the rule of law. "