Kathryn-Jean Lopez is an interesting specimen – young and a creature of the "conservative" cocoon and "conservative" welfare state. So I guess one has to forgive an astonishing statement like this:
Every once in a while — say, if there’s a Supreme Court opening this summer, as has been rumored, and he nominates a judge like Alito or Roberts – President George W. Bush may just remind us why we fell for him in the first place. It might not be the best marriage, but we share a love — a love of country, a love of democracy, a love of the Constitution.
The Constitution? After rescinding habeas corpus, authorizing warrantless wiretapping, setting up Gitmo, legalizing torture, threatening to amend the constitution for purposes of social policy, and politicizing the Justice Department to historically toxic levels? Only at NRO, I guess. And I thought even they were beginning to glimpse reality…
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