Stan – I don’t know which post you’re referring to. But let us stipulate that Hewitt is smart, decent, conservative, Republican, professional, honest, kind to puppies and widows, an excellent dancer and not only a handsome man but a powerful one.

Nonetheless, could you expand on this statement of yours?

And Hugh’s right to be ticked at the tendency to read Miers supporters out of the conservative movement, the Republican coalition, or whatever you want to call it.

With the possible exception of George Will’s heated prose, I can’t think of any evidence or examples that could back-up this assertion even if misconstrued. Meanwhile, disloyalty has been a major theme in the arguments of the pro-Miers crowd.

Also, since precision is normally one of your gifts, let me also say that the Republican coalition and the conservative movement are in fact quite different things and saying “whatever you want to call it” will not do. Indeed, one can be “read out” of one quite easily without being “read out” of the other. That is, of course, if any reading-out was going on in the first place.