An emailer writes:
The only reason I see some credibility to the sexism charges is the reaction to Gonzalez. Save a token year on the Texas Supreme Court and a fancier law school, his credentials are similar to hers (some might say her district court clerkship gives her a leg up). And yet among the myriad charges levelled against Gonzalez, no one ever suggested, to my knowledge, that he was underqualified. I have a hard time explaining that double standard away.
Actually, I think that if Gonzales had been nominated, that question would have come up – along with his enmeshment with legalizing torture and expediting people to the death chamber with the efficiency and care of your average spammer. My guess is that Rove talked Bush out of Gonzales and, almost in a fit of pique, Bush picked Miers instead. But that’s a guess. I have no idea what the president’s motivations were in this odd pick. Neither, it appears, do his most die-hard supporters.
The Dish 