I should not have been favorably disposed toward David Souter, as he was nominated by Bush pere on the recommendation of Sununu pere, and was quickly attacked by bleeding hearts for being a bloodless intellectual and a bachelor who, living alone in a house cluttered with books and music, could not be expected to have any sympathy for the problems of those Platonic forms of everyday virtue, "ordinary Americans." I was inclined to consider certain details of the prosecution brief as an assault upon my dignity, and am pleased that Souter, by disappointing his original sponsors and infuriating the foam-flecked mob also known as the Republican rank-and-file, proved a good advertisement for chaste bookworms.
I hope the new president can find someone even better to replace him.
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