Why not a smart guy outside the dome of stupidity i.e. Washington D.C.

As a guy who regularly ridicules the Supreme Court as "dopes in robes," I think Kagan may a perfect fit. One thing is for sure, this inexperienced unknown will receive none of the media scrutiny that George Bush's similarly "unqualified" candidate, Harriet Miers, received before bowing out.

You might recall that Mieres, like Kagan, had little practical knowledge about judging or practicing law. You might recall that during the Miers brouhaha, Lex opined that hey it might be a good thing to have someone outside the rarefied air of lawyerly circles making some common sense observations about cases. Like, "I don't know, I just don't like the looks of that guy."

How about Joe the plumber sitting on the Supreme Court during the Kelo case, where the dopes decided that it's ok for the mayor of a town to confiscate one private citizen's property in order to give it to another private citizen to expand the town's tax base. The Joe argument would go like this, "Whoa, hold on there. I think you guys may have too much powder in them wigs. So you're saying that it's ok for Mayor Quimby to take Moe's Bar and give it to Mr. Burns so Burns can open a 1920's style dance club? I don't think so."

See when you break all of this mumbo jumbo legal crap down into Simpson speak, even us little guys can understand it. And that's what we need. Some common or should we say Simpson sense.

If that's the case, Kagan mey not be the best choice. From what I've read, I see no real experience outside the faculty lounge. P-BO press stooge Squiggy Gibbs said we should feel lucky to have someone with Kagan's intellectual power which was honed at Harvard etc. etc. Well we've got one clueless Harvard grad totally bollixing up the country. Do we really need another?

How about selecting the 1969 honor grad from the Toledo Law School? That person has probably had some real world experiences and won't be on the court for the next 100 years. Why not some humble guy who has toiled in his profession? Why not someone with a sense of the common guy?

Maybe some wise ex-military man? I would hope that a wise military man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better decision than a bunch of color coded weenie lawyers and judges. Wait, I've heard something like that before.

Barring some note that says Kagan is closet conservative that has played the libs like drum - a much easier instrument in my opinion than the violin - she's going to get confirmed. The only thing that can stop it is some revelation that she's not a hard core lib.