[Overpaid Slacker]

Kach -
If the right is stacking judges, why is it attacking the judicial system? I'm not commenting on the relative number of judges who hold X or Y political opinion, but simply on why the Left uses its rabid, destroy-at-any-cost tactics to keep Republican/conservative judges off the bench.

The left's agenda loses when it's put to the public; so in order to "win" you've got to overturn the opinions of those uneducated, unclean, benighted morons, the public, and make sure they do things your way anyway, b/c you know better.

Next time that foul miasma Schumer says, in his blithely dismissive manner, that a judicial nominee is "out of touch" with or "out of the mainstream of" the US public, do yourself a favor and check that person's history against US public opinion polls. What they're actually "out of touch" with is his (Liberal) agenda, and they'll likely fall squarely within what the majority of Americans believe, according to national polls ... and no, not VRWC polls, but run-of-the-mill, "normal" polls. Somewhere at home I have a piece that printed out a grid of 3 Bush nominees accused of having been outside the mainstream by Schumer and 10 of their positions, cross-referenced to public opinion polls. He's lying and you're believing him (well, I don't know if YOU are, kach, but I suspect you believe him).

As far as attacking academia -- absolutely. And the right is beginning, maybe, to make headway against that bastion of Liberal indoctrination and its practices.

JP