I must admit some amusement to your objections to the nomination of Ms. Miers to the Supreme Court. No, really, that line about how she’s not qualified to play a Supreme Court Justice on The West Wing was just hilarious, dear.
But really, I must express some concern that the worst thing you could think of to say about Harriet Miers is that she’s an SMU girl! Putting aside my own status as an SMU Alumna, do you really mean to insult the fine women who have graduated from Southern Methodist University, including the esteemed Mrs. Bush?
I mean really, it’s not like she got her law degree from Fill-In-The-State Wesleyan!
You could have chosen to make fun of her Tammy Faye makeup, or her her long history in the sordid tale of Dallas politics; you could even have pointed out that she would still be working within a half hour of her alma mater if the President hadn’t taken her to Washington D.C.. You could have wondered aloud why she didn’t get her MRS along with her JD, speculating whether or not she might be a closet feminist, albeit with some hypocrisy. You could have focused on the fact that she’d never been a judge of any sort, not even on the SMU Moot Court. Better yet, you could have tried to figure out what the woman actually thinks and stands for. Instead you chose to impugn a fine university that apparently doesn’t meet your discerning standards.
Surely a Cornell grad like yourself can come up with something intellectually rigorous to say against Ms. Miers.
Sincerely,
ShortWoman