From Max’s Dad:
Vitter is truly an awful choice to be in any position of power. I wouldnt want this 19th century mind running a souvenir shop down on Canal Street. This backwater barrister has continually pushed the junk science of the pro-life movement, You know, the oldies like women who have abortions all get cancer cuz of Jesus. That Planned Parenthood “killed” 150,000 women every year with their birth control and their pap smears and their selling those baby parts and their abortion referrals and their looking up womens naughty parts. Hey come on, that’s her husbands field of expertise.
But the thing that Wendy Vitter did, or didnt do, says it all. Vitter, remember a LIFETIME federal judge nominee, would not say whether Brown vs Board of Education was correctly decided. You know Brown, the case that said yeah you know that Plessy v Ferguson deal, not so good. Separate but equal really doesnt work. So you white people cannot keep the blacks and browns and the Asians and the Indians out of your schools.
Nah, Wendy Vitter has no idea if that decision was right.
Trump seems to nominate people based on their incompetence, not their competence.
And Republicans, for the most part, are eager to approve them. Given all of the power that Republicans have right now, one would think that they would nominate and approve only those who can rationally, honestly, secularly, and eloquently defend their conservative positions to occupy important roles in the government. Their struggle to find such people is a sign of the problems of their ideology; their nearly unanimous acceptance of whatever garbage turns up for the position is a sign of their exceptionally poor standards, moral and otherwise.
Do conservative intellectuals even exist anymore? What about ones who support the GOP?