John Roberts may not be running for President like Grover Cleveland against James G. Blaine, but face it: we live in nasty times. Unlike folks like Hugh Hewitt and Kay Bailey Hutchison, among many others, we are not outraged that the New York Times was looking for evidence that something may have been amiss in Roberts’ adoption of his two kids. It’s not that far a leap from looking for evidence of the illegal alien nanny to looking for payoffs or use of special influence to get to the head of the tow-head cutie adoption line. From the standpoint of an ideal world, we probably agree with Professor Bainbridge:

Slimy Slimeballs

I find the NY Times’ reported effort to dig into the adoption records of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ children totally despicable. It’s just another example of how the MSM’s overweening belief that they are the untouchable masters of the universe blinds them to the privacy-invading low-life scum that they in fact are. Putting yourself forward as a prospective public servant should not mean abandoning all privacy rights, especially when it comes to your children. Some things simply ought to be off-limits. Let’s just hope the Democrats have the decency not to do it, although that’s expecting a lot from the folks whose conduct inspired the word “borking.”

However, we are not in an ideal world. We are in a world where anything is fair game: 30 year old DUI’s, the Plame name, Mary Cheney, your housekeeper or gardener and social security on same, your gayness or straightness and evidence of same (film at 11!), your taxes, hookers, shrinks and shills, your errant progeny and pills. The country would be better off if both sides would declare a truce and draw the line so that almost all personal matters are off-limits, but it will probably take a real tragedy before these excessive opposition research efforts are curtailed.

Having violated most of the Ten Commandments, the Bill of Rights, and Roberts’ Rules of Order, we are looking forward to never being nominated for anything.

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