Reply #8: Couple probable answers [View All]

[MrBenchley]

My feeling is that Harry Reid rope-a-doped him on this...Chimpy sees his poll numbers in freefall and wanted desperately to have a nominee that would not be controversial...and Harry made vaguely approving noises about Dirty Harriet.

"And what the fuck is the objection that right wingers have to her?"
That's easy. The Dobson/Robertson crowd wanted a full crank right wing loony of the sort that would order Terri Schiavo exhumed, gay people exterminated, school prayer and Jim Crow reinstated and Spongebob yanked off the air. Roy Moore would have fit the bill. Harriet ain't it.

And the George Will/William Buckley crowd are up in arms because Chimpy WAS rope-a-doped...and now as the GOP sinks in the cesspool they've got a nominee who just by being there will remind mainstream America every day for the next few months about:
--the "Chimpy knew about 9/11 in advance and did nothing" scandal
--the Tom Delay scandal
--the "unqualifed boob at an impoortant job like FEMA" scandal
--the "Chimpy is a wartime deserter" scandal
--the "Chimpy lied about his arrest record" scandal
anbd a bunch of other things that those guys didn't necessarily want America to be reminded about every day for the next few months...