Are we ready for the mud slinging to start?

With the announcement of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as Nominee to U.S. Supreme Court surely the Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans will crawl out of their respective holes to attempt to discredit and torch her. Last month, CBS News reported that she could be the "first openly gay Justice."

Here is a nominee who has no voting record to distort, no history of making decisions to invalidate and question, with the distinction of being a brilliant legal scholar with both liberal views and conservative friends. She has no or limited personal life to attack. She is not married and doesn't have any children to embarrass her. Her focus always seemed to be her career.

Kagan's reputation for bringing together liberals and conservatives as dean of the Harvard Law School, with the hiring of young conservative scholars "sent a strong signal to conservative alumni that, despite her own party affiliation, she was committed to intellectual diversity and meritocracy at the law school," said Harvard alumnus and former Bush administration lawyer Brad Berenson.

As Solicitor General, Kagan argued against the military "don't ask, don't tell" policy, calling it "just flat out wrong."

"At Harvard, she was known as an avid listener, who could get to the heart of the matter with a measure of both logical analysis and compassion. Sound like excellent qualifications to me, " according to Lis Wiehl.

Let's see, no judicial experience, a good listener, analytical and compassionate, a brilliant mind by most standards. Not your typical Washington, D.C. resident, maybe she is a good choice but that will be decided when all of the name calling and mud slinging subside.

Now we get to hear from the Left and Right for the rest of the summer. Let the games begin.