Because I was busy spending time on planet earth I hadn’t noticed that there are more than a few conservatives now claiming that Sen. Harry Reid must be a racist because he said on Meet The Press that he would consider voting for Justice Scalia for Chief Justice but not Justice Thomas since the latter had been an “embarrassment” as a member of the court.
To these folks, I suppose, both men are equally well-respected “conservatives,” and thus favoring one over the other can only be a function of race prejudice.
(Tonight I even got one of the inevitable ‘you’re a hypocrite because you don’t give Reid the treatment you gave Sen. Lott’ emails.)
Perhaps someone can help me out here by sending in a clever witticism noting how those most eager to shape jurisprudence to demand proof of racist intent to justify remedial action are also the quickest to toss around the most risible accusations of racism to cover for their own mediocre Justices.
