GOP only superficially supports Brown

A hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for this article.

Rather than tread the same ground AS covers, I'll offer a slightly different take.

I do not believe Brown was nominated by Bush because of her conservative credentials, though for sure, they got her in the door. No, she was picked not for judicial prudence, or philosophical conviction, she was picked because she is a double-whammy weapon against the Dems - she's black and she's female.

Howard Dean was absolutely right in his critique of the GOP as being all white, all male and all Christian - and the Dems are absolutely going to be using that fact wherever possible to regain minority voters lost to the 'security vote' last time around.

The GOP therefore have to find more conservatives from minority backgrounds to broaden their appeal, and Brown satisfies that criteria to a T. This explains the constant reference to her background as 'daughter of a sharecropper', it's Because THAT is what is actually important to the GOP about her.

They won't defend her philosophy because the majority of the GOP no longer share it, they are quite happy with Big Government now that they are in charge of it - but they will cheerfully play her race and gender for their own benefit.