Legal Commentary

What Is the "Respectable Center?"

By Big Tent Democrat

Citing Jeffrey Rosen's atrocious and embarassing piece, Marc Ambinder defines Rosen as the "Respectable Center."

There was nothing "respectable" about Rosen's piece, it was an embarassment. And his unbridled defenses and support for now Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito make clear that he is by no stretch of the imagination in the Center. He is Neocon Right Center - a sort of Stuart Taylor. That's not the Center. Marc Ambinder is simply accepting the Village Wisdom.

Interestingly, Ambinder deigns to give "advice" to the "Left" on how to fight these fights. My first piece of advice remains the same - NEVER EVER let people like Marc Ambinder define what the Center is. People like Rosen, Taylor and Ambinder are of the Center Right, at best. That's who they are. Knowing that and SAYING That is step one in this process imo.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).