As expected, the right wing is calling President Obama’s Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan a radical socialist activist lesbian this week. Rush Limbaugh is being his usual sexist slob self, saying yesterday, “We don’t need to go too deep in analyzing the babe … I guess she can change her mind. She’s a woman.”

Charming. Pamela Geller should be chiming in any minute to tell us Kagan is a sekrit Muslim convert who wants to turn the US into a caliphate.

But is any of this overheated ranting accurate? In a word, no; in fact, one of the marks of real political moderates is that they’re criticized by both left and right, and Kagan is a perfect example. The Washington Post has a good background piece today: For Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, a history of pragmatism over partisanship.