Already several readers complain that I’m willing to embrace pro-quota Mahoney but not pro-quota Miers. A couple points.

1) The correct charge would be inconsistent not hypocrite.

2) I’m neither. First, as I just posted, I could be wrong about Mahoney and that would be bad news. Second, go back and read my post where I came out against her, I wrote: “It’s not just that Miers was in favor of racial quotas — we’d pretty much known that for a while. It’s the fundamental confirmation that she’s a go-along-with-the-crowd establishmentarian.” This is not exactly the same thing as saying I opposed Miers solely on affirmative action.