My colleagues have posted several different reactions from people on Bush’s choice of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court justice. The choice appearing inexplicable, theories to try to explain Bush’s reasoning for it abound. They range anywhere from cronyism to spinelessness to subtle gamesmanship, although many attempt a wait-and-see attitude, however reluctantly. (For example, I don’t know why Bush selected Miers, and as for whether her pick owes to cronyism, poll-watching spinelessness, clever gamesmanship or whatever, I’ll have to wait and see ? wait for data to confirm or refute the theories.)
Meanwhile, however, inexplicability suits conspiracymongers’ tastes just fine. It provides them a wide area in which to connect dots from the event to the preformulated conclusion.
Take the Jones/Christensen kooks, for example, whose conclusion is that Bush’s America is a dictatorship in which we are slaves, but we’re too dull to notice. Everything that occurs, especially if it’s at all inexplicable at first, serves that unsensed dictatorship ? in the most frightening terms imagineable, of course.
Knowing that, I went to Jones’ site expecting something good, and voil?!: “Miers Supreme Court Pick: Another Anti-American Neo-Con Yes-Woman”