Interesting mix of e-mails. Some take offense at the idea that appointing an Evangelical Christian is an act of tokenism. That would be a valid complaint, except that the Supreme Court is not a representative body and picking a single person to represent an entire people or faith is the definition of tokenism. Some are alleging that there is bad faith on the part of Catholic and Jewish conservatives who won’t support the nomination because she’s an evangelical and evangelicals have been good to Catholics and Jews. That argument is beneath contempt, so I will treat it with the contempt it deserves. Finally, some evangelicals write that they are heartsick at the thought that the president might be seeking to “reward” them in this manner.

I didn’t, however, get it right in my post about World Magazine blogger Bunnie Diehl. World editor Marvin Olasky has not actually expressed unqualified enthusiasm for Miers: “If I were king of the forest, I too would probably nominate to the Supremes another Justice Scalia ready to rumble with rhetorical brilliance against the legal theorists of the left,” he wrote today. Sorry to mischaracterize.