Women Suck

Following immediately on the heels of GOP Senator John Thune's naked bigotry against potential gay nominees to SCOTUS, former RNC chair and senior Bush advisor Ed Gillespie visited "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer yesterday afternoon, where he helpfully explained that Obama should be looking for the most qualified candidates—which probably doesn't include women.

Blitzer: …remember the president, your President, the President Bush, uh, he did find a woman, Harriet Miers—

Gillespie: I remember it well. Yeah, sure, I was there.

Blitzer: —to be his nominee, and that didn't exactly work out. Did he get gunshy after that?

Gillespie: He did not get gunshy after that, uh, but I think that, you know, in the next round of, uh, the selection process, uh, the person who emerged as clearly most qualified—really head and shoulders above,uh, others—were [sic] Samuel Alito, and there wasn't really a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.

Nowhere in the whole country. Not a single woman even close. Imagine that.

Alito was only appointed three years ago, so Gillespie—particularly because he is not adding any qualifiers like "there weren't any conservative women"—is implying here, and none too subtly, that if Obama nominates any woman, she will be unqualified, because the Bush administration just searched high and low three years ago (and four years ago, when John Roberts was appointed) and found no one.

Keep it up, GOP. Keep it up.