RNC Attacks Elena Kagan, Thurgood Marshall and Ben Franklin

RNC Chairman Michael Steele came out firing today at Elena Kagan, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens.

(Given) her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution "as originally drafted and conceived, was 'defective,'" you can expect Senate Republicans to respectfully raise serious and tough questions.... blah,blah, blah

As Dave Weigel points out

(Steele) made reference to a 1993 essay in which Kagan wrote that the Constitution "as originally drafted and conceived" was "defective." Bloggers pointed out that the reference was to a speech from Justice Thurgood Marshall, referring largely to what everyone agrees were intolerable limits on the rights of women and non-whites in the original Constitution.

So this makes her a bad nominee? Admitting the problems with the original document now makes her an America-hater. At least according to the radical right. At this point, they've practically rendered Thurgood Marshall unconfirmable.

I'll point you to a quote from Benjamin Franklin, urging ratiifcation of the document to keep the country from slumping into tyranny: "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults"

So if the RNC intends to go after Kagan on those counts, they best go after Dr. Franklin, who we all know hated America and liberty. the same Dr. Franklin who, by the way, is the picture denoting Charity on Beck's wall.