It looks like sexism is alive and well. From a Drudge Report news flash (that link won't be good for long), it looks like the President was determined to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court:
Before President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, called influential Christian leader James Dobson to assure him that Miers was a conservative evangelical Christian, Dobson said in remarks scheduled for broadcast Wednesday on his national radio show.The LA TIMES reports: In that conversation, which has been the subject of feverish speculation, Rove also told Dobson that one reason the president was passing over better-known conservatives was that many on the White House short list had asked not to be considered, Dobson said, according to an advance transcript of the broadcast provided by his organization, Focus on the Family.
Dobson said that the White House had decided to nominate a woman, which reduced the size of the list, and that several women on it had then bowed out.
``What Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it,'' Dobson said, according to the transcript.
Expect leftist anti-discrimination voices to raise a hue and cry at any moment over this blatant sexism.
I couldn't care less if Dubya nominated a woman or a man.
It's the cronyism and lack of qualifications that I have a problem with in the Miers situation.
What a coincidence; cronyism and lack of qualifications was exactly the problem with Michael Brown too.
Still waiting to see a serious charge of sexism. Haven't seen it yet.
impurist: Purposefully excluding from consideration all people of a certain gender isn't sexism?
Mark: Yeah, although I think Brown's failures were overblown. He was a scapegoat to some degree.