It shouldn’t be so “remarkable”

Bill Kristol points out that President Bush was courageous in daring to look beyond identity politics and PC racial/gender pandering in nominating John Roberts to the SCOTUS.

I don’t know that I would call it “courageous.”

I think I would call it “typical.” Bush routinely picks the person he considers best for the job and even his most vehement enemies admit (and not even begrudgingly) that he is genuinely color/gender blind in that regard.

It’s actually, I think, a very healthy – sort of “classically liberal” – way to be…to see a person as a PERSON, rather than as a race, gender, sexuality, etc.

Clearly Kristol has fallen into the same trap/habit of looking at a person and seeing a “catagory” instead of a human being. Too many of us have. It would be good for our country if we could all get past it.

UPDATE: Gerald is doing some unnecessary gloating because Roberts is a Catholic. I just wonder if we’ll have to hear Chuch Schumer carry on about his fears over Roberts’ “deeply held beliefs…” It certainly bothered him with Pryor, who is also a Catholic.