Hugh Hewitt Has SO Jumped The Shark Re: Miers

I must admit to never having read Hugh Hewitt's blog prior to the Miers nomination, for which Hewitt has been such a cheerleader. But if I had been a Hewitt fan, that would have ended with this insulting post:

The implicitly anti-evangelical tone of much of the Miers criticism, coupled with the refusal to defend her pro-life views from the assault now underway from the left has raised a very legitimate question for all commentators: Do you really want Roe reversed? Where is that result among your priorities? The suspicion is growing that the GOP elite is really reconciled to abortion on demand but unwilling to announce as much for fear of the political consequences.

Paul Zummo at ConfirmThem.com deftly handles this piece of Hewitt tripe:

Wow. This is so offensive I’m not sure where to begin. First of all, how has any of the criticism demonstrated an “anti-Evangelical” strain of thought? This sort of thinking exists only in the fervent imagination of Hugh Hewitt.

Further, as a devout Catholic who has protested outside of abortion clinics, I completely resent having my pro-life credentials questioned. And I think that Ramesh Ponnuru, Steve Dillard, Kathryn Lopez and other pro-life Catholics, as well as other pro-life Miers critics would equally be offended by this completely absurd accusation. In fact, we have been partly motivated by the fact that there is nothing to suggest that Miers would vote to overturn Roe, her so-called pro-life credentials nothwithstanding. For one thing, there is no guarantee that a pro-life individual would take necessarily vote to overturn Roe, and even if one could be assured of that, her background does not suggest that she would offer an intellectually compelling rationale for doing so. As Hugh, lawyer that he is, must surely understand, the Supreme Court is not a super-legislature. SCOTUS opinions are transmitted to lower courts and interpreted there. They are taught in law schools. They are the basis of law review articles. An intellectually inferior opinion based on a person’s individual religious beliefs would be easily refuted by a smart liberal.

That must be some Kool-Aid that Hewitt is drinking in order to allow him to wash down all his principles in the name of supporting Dubya regardless of the the cost.