Professor Sowell weighs in

Thomas Sowell is another individual for whom I have the utmost respect. He offers his take on the Specter-Bork affair here. He also makes an excellent point about the ultimate issue involved in this mini-drama, which I won't bother paraphrasing:

"After more than half a century of escalating judicial activism -- judges imposing their own beliefs instead of applying the law -- our country is at a crossroads. There is an opportunity -- one that may not come again in this generation -- to make judicial appointments that will restore the rule of law.

"The issue is not whether judges will impose liberal policies or conservative policies. The larger issue is whether they will destroy the voting public's control over their own destiny. Too many generations of Americans have fought and died to preserve the right of democratic self-governance to let judges continue to erode that right and become judicial dictators."

Read the whole article -- it's very illuminating.