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By Carol Platt Liebau Posted in Analysis and Predictions — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Thomas Sowell makes an excellent case that Harriet Miers may be the best the rest of us could have hoped for, given the "weak sisters" in the Senate -- Arlen Specter and John Warner by name (but the term also encompasses Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Lincoln Chafee).

And by all means, let's remember John McCain -- who, this week, was probably singlehandedly responsible for forcing a run-off for an Orange County congressional seat, because of his endorsement of a candidate that the National Review quite correctly called a "Republican who favors partial-birth abortion, criticizes Social Security reform, and waffles on free trade." McCain's candidate won only won 16% of the vote -- but that was enough to hold the mainstream Republican at 46%, rather than letting him get to the 51% that would have sent him to Congress immediately.

With friends like this, who needs Democrats?

(And just to reiterate, as is noted below: National Review -- hardly a bastion of pro-Miers propaganda -- reports that the "Warren Burger" remark may have been taken out of context. )