Cornyn hires a Volokh Conspiracist

It's difficult to imagine how the GOP can effectively press its attacks on Sotomayor that she is some sort of unqualified affirmative action mediocrity who disregards the law when John Cornyn's own Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations called her "a liberal mirror image of Samuel Alito"; said she "has put in 15 years as a respected federal judge"; described her selection as "a pretty conservative pick"; dismissed the "empathy" attack as a simplistic superficiality; and [of greatest political significance] pointed out that Robert Bork viewed the law and a judge's role rather similarly to the caricature being peddled about Sotomayor.

Glenn Greenwald, who accurately describes Chief Justice John Roberts's celebrated baseball metaphor as "inane and misleading."

However, it remains a favorite of political conservatives, who are not only unimpressed by subtleties and shades of gray, but whose absolutist philosophies* refuse to acknowledge their very existence.

* Alternatively, religions.