Posted on 10/13/2005 9:53:08 PM PDT by rodomila
Edited on 10/14/2005 4:40:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I am a 52 year old unknown stockbroker and am a ssure I would have been a better pick than Harriet Miers.
First of all I would be CERTAIN to vote with Scalia and Thomas 99.9% of the time. I have the same judicial experience as her (zero), the same law review experience (zero) and have written just as many published articles on constitutional themes as she (zero).
I went to more highly regarded schools than her, have a twenty year record of speaking out publicly on Pro-Life matters including being an officer in Pro-Life organizations and publisher of Pro-Life newsletters. You KNOW I would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and Kelo. I'm a life member of the NRA, and a non-lawyer member of the Federalist Society.
I can show can prove through cancelled checks that in the last twenty years I have supported scores of Pro-Life conservative candidates, and numerous organizations supporting property rights, right to work, religious freedom, ACLJ, Focus on the Family, military support organizations, Immigration reform groups etc.
In short I have been taking a conservative stand and supporting conservative conservative causes for over 25 years in ways that are easily documented.
I am not unique. Most Freepers can make the same claims and thus would also be superior nominees to this cypher of a woman, Harriet Miers, who has gone through life without ever taking a documentable stand on anything of importance.
I was NOT a registered Democrat thoughout the entire Reagan Presidency like she was. In 1988 she was writing checks to pro-choicer Al Gore for his Presidential run. She was telling gay groups she supported gay rights in her Dallas city council race.
In 2005 we are told she's a super conservative for Bush and supposedly pro-life. Then W tells us that she won't change for the NEXT 20 years. Huh? How can he assure us of that? Sounds like Souter II to me. (actually he sounded more conservative and had better credentials when nominated).
Bush tells us we must support her because she is an evangelical Christian. That is undeniably a plus but it is no guarantee. Jimmy Carter is too but you wouldn't want him on the SCOTUS. I have been outraged by this nomination since the minute I heard it.
Conservative legal icon Robert Bork calls the pick "a disaster on every level".
I am a guy who was involved in both Bush campaigns in Florida and my wife and I were in the thick of the recount battles of 2000. We have defended W for seven years even through the out of control spending and the outrageous presciption drug fiasco but this nomination was a stabb in the back.
I am astounded that so many Freepers who ought to know better are defending this disgraceful insulting pick. Bush had a chance to make history but he squandered it on a crony whose only qualification for this critical appointment is that she's been kissing his butt for ten years.
We elected him President, not King. This is an affront to all the lawyers who have dedicated themselves to constitutional law. Defeating this nomination and replacing her with someone who has earned the spot in ways other than sucking up to the boss (Luttig, Estrada, Brown, Alito, Edith Jones, Clement, McConnell) would be the best thing that could happen for Conservatism in America. Having shown enough clout to derail a SCOTUS nomination the Republican party might stop taking us for granted and realize who gave them their cushy jobs.
I urge all of you to get out as many emails and letters to Senators as possible. If we keep up the pressure WE CAN DERAIL THIS NOMINEE. We must do it to ensure to the future of conservatism in the US.
Are you prepared to have everyone calling up your NASD file if you are nominated? RATS pouring over every trade you ever made?
Forgive my joking around. I pretty much feel the same way you do. Ms. Miers is a lovely person, but she is no Michael Luttig.
Do you know that she knows what a paragraph is? Oops, I forgot. She hasn't written anything so how could you know?
Give me a break it's 1 AM and I'm still steamed about this pick. We had a lot invested in George W. Bush and he let us down, Big Time. Bork, Krauthammer, Lowry, Levin, Coulter, Ingraham, Limbaugh, Will, Noonan, Charen, Miranda, Chavez (Linda), Malkin, & Frum and countless other commentators I have grown to trust over the years are unlikely to be all wrong on the same subject.
The White House has released reams of papers (over 2,000 so far) stating what she has been doing "all these years"
Anybody willing to read them can discover her actions and non-actions for themselves.
Unless of course, you are saying the papers the White House released are full of lies.
From someone who's posted about 6 times in the past few years.........yawn.
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Miers. There's one crony.
Please....tell me you don't get your information and opinions from pundits....
Ms. Miers didn't post this unformatted vanity screed.... You did! But nice try
what would you expect from rodomila-clinton?
"algore claimed to be pro-life in '88"
LOL, and you believe him??????
Nope --he cast multiple votes in favor of abortion from 85-88
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497421/posts?page=71#71
You're unqualified in basic HTML.
Not good enough.
Did you ever clerk for a Federal Judge?
His views on the 2nd Amendment spell disaster for every gun owner in this country.
Well, you've got the talking points down pat, you dropped all the right names, and you still haven't come up with an original thought.
You smell like an embedded troll.
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