Harriet Miers
Via the Sunday Oregonian “quick quips” section of the Letters to the Editor thingamajing:
Liberals would send, without a separation of church scruple, the Revs. Martin Luthur King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. — Louis Sargent, Northwest Portland.
Hrm. That’s a basic lineage of degression: King to Jackson — who fancied himself the next coming of King, and then Jackson to Sharpton — who fancies himself the next coming of Jackson. But nevermind. Right now Martin Luthur King Jr has been de-politicized to a point where we can kind of gloss over some of his more — um — socialistic inclinations — and we can presume that he satisfactorily accomplished his dream of full integration… so just about every politician can announce that, yes indeed, they’d like him as a Supreme Court Pick… since he’s dead and that’s not going to happen.
Never mind. I don’t know if Louis Sargent is in mind with this radical street preacher I had conversations with over the Internet, name of Eldon Orr, who insists that Marin Luthur King, Jr. got his training at a “Communist Training School”, but by the time we get to Al Sharpton… I don’t see any reason he should get onto the Supreme Court. In Sharpton’s defense and in Harriet Mier’s offense, I don’t know who Sharpton’d be a crony of.
It is not Harriet Miers passing out M & Ms that makes me cringe. It is Bill Kristol and his ilk assuming they get to pick the court. Miers needs to withdraw and think Bill is God — as he does. Myrna Alberthsen, Southeast Portland.
Hrm. Here, at long last, is the manifestation of that supposed difference between the Republican voter and the Republican elite that George Bush Administration is waving as a threat to the batch of Republican senators running for president. Should Miers think that Bill Kristol is God, it would be a simple change from the current state of being — where she thinks that George is God.