I like Ezra Klein's framing of the issue: the centrality of women's (and gay and racial minority) issues to what the SCOTUS does is exactly why non-(straight white male) candidates are so important.
And it is actually seriously incredible to me that an opinion columnist in a national paper can do a piece that boils down to "race and gender don't matter anymore so Obama should appoint a white man" and not get called out by an editor for the basic error in reasoning.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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Since when has reasoning played any part in conservative framing? "Anybody who isn't an old white dude is an ultralibrul" is rightward push of the Overton Window, not a logical argument.
I think Richard Cohen bills himself as a reasonable moderate (of course, your "when has reasoning played any part" question still applies). But yeah, this is identity politics at its worst.
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