In October
2005, when President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme
Court seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives rose
up in perfectly reasonable fury. Harriet Miers, they noted, was
intellectually undistinguished, ill-qualified for the job, lacking
impeccable conservative credentials, and inept in handling basic
constitutional questions.
Today, writes Steve Chapman, the same things could be said about Sarah Palin. Yet just as quickly and vigorously as conservatives rejected Miers, they embraced Palin. Even after her bungling performance in the 2008 campaign and her strange decision to resign as governor of Alaska, some of them still do.
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