Liberals are stupid

Really, there's no other explanation for these things:

WASHINGTON, D.C.--In the first hours of Samuel Alito's Senate confirmation hearings on Monday, Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, may very well have irreparably compromised himself.

At the hearing, Graham told Alito, nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, that he had already decided in Alito's favor. "I don't know what kind of vote you're going to get, but you'll make it through. It's possible you could talk me out of voting for you, but I doubt it. So I won't even try to challenge you along those lines."

That certainly ought to be the case. Graham is one of a group of Republicans who have been coaching Alito behind the scenes. The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reported before the hearings began:

The article then reaches this conclusion:

If this is true, how can Graham make an impartial decision about Alito based on what he learns at the Alito hearings? Graham has already made up his mind.

Memo to the left...a confirmation hearing isn't a trial and Senators are not jurrors. Graham has no obligation to keep and open mind, he has no obligation to be a neutral observer. This is a political issue. Politicians take sides, it's what they do.

Saying stupid things...it's what the left does.