Political Perceptions: Eric Holder, Going Down Hard on the Right

However well it might go down within Democratic circles, President-elect Barack Obama’s apparent choice of Eric Holder as his attorney general isn’t going down well on the right, if a piece by the editors of the National Review is any indication. “As we observed throughout the campaign, Barack Obama gave indications that his election would mean a return to the September 10 mentality, a national-security outlook marked prominently by its lack of seriousness about the terrorist threat,” the Review Online writes. “In choosing Eric Holder to be his attorney general, President-Elect Obama has taken a step toward confirming those misgivings.” The editors argue that Holder is “a conventional, check-the-boxes creature of the Left. He is convinced justice in America needs to be ‘established’ rather than enforced; he’s excited about hate crimes and enthusiastic about the constitutionally dubious Violence Against Women Act; he’s a supporter of affirmative action and a practitioner of the statistical ... (link)