One small conservative group is opposing John Roberts' nomination. Add that together with what Ann Coulter has said about him, and the White House must be very happy. What better way to portray him as a reasonable nominee than to have some conservative group that criticized Dick Cheney for saying that freedom means freedom for everyone including gays come out against Roberts even though other conservative groups still oppose him. And while Ann Coulter is fun to read, she is hardly the spokeswoman for all conservatives. Her opposition must makes Roberts look like a candidate for the middle.

It reminds me of when media people go on some talk show and are asked about criticism that they're biased towards the left. And Noble Joe Reporter will laugh it off and say that he receives letters from both the left and the right so he must be just right. This Goldilocks defense always begs the question: what if both sides are right in criticizing Noble Joe. And it probably mischaracterizes the criticism. I would bet that a small handful of liberals would call the New York Times biased towards the right, but huge numbers of the public would see it as biased towards the left. But those few liberal critics give Noble Joe the cover to claim that he's "just right." The same thing is happening with Judge Roberts. A few far right critics will make him seem "just right."

You think Karl Rove planned that too and is secretly encouraging Ann Coulter? You know he controls everything that happens that helps the Bush administration.