Kos's take is wrong, but insightful

The Daily Kos is right to say that John Roberts and Harriet Miers have been "stealth" nominations for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). There's been a lot of discussion over why Bush didn't nominate someone who would draw a bloodbath of a fight.

Kos' analysis of why Bush avoided a fight is, I think, wrong:

This was supposed to be their "coming out" party, and yet Bush refuses to let them out of the closet. Republicans are losing ground with the American people, as the public becomes increasingly intimate with the side effects of Republican mis-governance. The last thing they need is the last fictions of the conservative agenda, masked by rhetorical devices and Friday-afternoon disclosures, trumpeted for all to see.

The conservative agenda is not a dominant ideology, otherwise they wouldn't be so loath to give it to us unvarnished. It is a minority ideology. Yet the conservative yahoos don't get it. They think they're in the majority and can't fathom why Bush won't let them party out in the open.

So therein is Bush's dilemma. Sabotage the conservative movement by announcing its principles with a bullhorn (precisely what a Prescilla Owens would've done), or suffer conservative discontent by keeping them locked up in the basement.

Bush chose the latter.

I think Kos makes an interesting point about the public becoming disenfranchised with Republican government, but it's an overly simplistic point. There is a debate within Republican circles on whether Bush's spending is healthy, and some conservatives think he's out of control. I'll leave that one, for the present, to the economists.

But most people vote on more basic issues, one of which is values/morality etc. And I think if you look at the fact that 11 states voted against same-sex marriage last november, and then three more have done the same afterward, that's just one sign that many people are realizing there must be limits on personal choice and freedoms. It's a self-evident truth: you can't be free to do whatever you want to do. Hopefully more people are figuring out every day that leftist elitists are trying to foist their own perspectives onto the populace through the courts or the legislature, which is the only way so far that same-sex marriage has been legally validated.

But I think there is something deeper that Kos exposes, but analyzes incorrectly. He is right that Bush chose not to expose conservative ideology to the public. But that is not because most people don't agree.

I think it is because in a debate on the law, most of the American people are not intelligent enough or well read enough to listen to facts and follow facts, but instead, they listen to emotionalism and rhetoric that might or might not be backed up by facts.

And in the age of media, in the United States of Entertainment, the Democrats, lacking any real ideas of their own, are masters of rhetoric that trumpets "rights" and "equality" and labels their opponents "extremists" or "bigots."

And Republicans are not quite as media savvy when it comes to public relations, or image-making, and never have been, going all the way back to Nixon vs. Kennedy.

So Bush chose to submit nominees who will uphold the law, who will judge in a way that the majority of Americans DO agree with, but Bush has submitted the nominees in a way that will not allow them to be subterfuged by dishonest, shallow, mean-spirited and unintelligent tactics from the left, which are all they have left.

But because we watch far too much television and our universities have become breeding grounds for the new religion of the left, which is secular humanism mixed with relativism.