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Kagan: Partisan or Pragmatist?

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palomino5/11/2010 1:24:48 pm PDT

re: #410 Obdicut

No, you’ve simply dodged the question. Given that he was one of the last of a long line, he can’t be an exception, nor was it a rule when he was appointed.

Sticking by your guns when you’re obviously wrong isn’t actually a virtue. It just makes you look foolish.

Some partisans pick their battles judiciously, and some just fight on every single issue, regardless of the merits. I think we see the latter here.