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George the Betrayer and Harriet (Miers) Who
Bob Lonsberry.com ^ | 10/04/05 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 10/04/2005 5:35:29 AM PDT by shortstop

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To: Rummyfan

She's more qualified than Hitlery.


21 posted on 10/04/2005 5:51:25 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: paul544

I don't even feel like reading the thoughts of someone who begins by calling a nominee a "nobody." It offends my beliief that everybody is somebody.


22 posted on 10/04/2005 5:51:52 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Terpfen

How about Ronald Reagan (the Democrat)?????


23 posted on 10/04/2005 5:52:08 AM PDT by BillM
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To: Dane

How about Strom Thurmond (the Democrat)?


24 posted on 10/04/2005 5:53:03 AM PDT by BillM
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To: shortstop

This just shows you how brilliant this pick is and how desperate the lefties have become. I think this is their strategy. The lefties know Bush's numbers are down and they are trying to siphon off his conservative base by throwing some of these thoughts on the Miers pick.

When I first heard about this yesterday, I was disappointed but as I went through the day and heard about the pick, I think it is brilliant. She has no track record as a judge so the Dems will have a dificult time putting her on the hot seat, she is an insider (so Bush knows her better than a lot of other President's picks) and Reid and company have basically endorsed her. The only thing the lefties can say is the conservatives are disappointed with the pick.

I trust this President because he has done exactly what he says. Bush has said he wants more Justices in the Scalia/Thomas mold and I believe him. I have heard she is a Christian and she is pro-life. I truly believe this pick will show how great of a man Bush is and the legacy is leaving behind. He understands the stakes and the opportunity he has to make an impact on this Supreme Court and this country.

I was thinking back in 1997 when 1 million men got together in Washington DC to pray and intercede for this country. I remember Clinton flying over with Marine One to see all the men and he couldn't believe how many evangelical Christians were there. A year later President Clinton is impeached and a presidency starts to unravel.

We elect President Bush (an answered prayer in D.C.) who is not the savior of this country but an evangelical Christian who does what he says he will do and searches after God's heart. I believe we will say Miers is one of the best justices for this country and conservative Christian will be thanking God for Bush's pick in a few years.


25 posted on 10/04/2005 5:54:08 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Williams
Exactly. I have to wonder if the right isn't in the process of pissing Miers off so she damn well will not feel any loyalty to the side she otherwise was going to help.

If Ms. Meirs ever reads this, just want to tell her that these ranters are a small but shouting group.

She probably already knows this about the ranters after working with the President for 10 years.

26 posted on 10/04/2005 5:54:51 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: TXBSAFH

What an exaggerated diatribe against a conservative justice pick. But you're in "good" company, I saw that putz David Gergen on Fox this morning saying she is unqualified. What a bunch of elitist hooey.


27 posted on 10/04/2005 5:54:58 AM PDT by Williams
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To: xzins
There is really only one thing you need to know. THERE WERE BETTER CANDIDATES. End of story.

Next question!

28 posted on 10/04/2005 5:55:06 AM PDT by Doc Savage (...because they stand on a wall, and they say nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch!)
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To: Ron in Acreage
Nor has she been any sort of pioneer for women’s rights – having spent the bulk of her legal career with a woman already sitting on the Supreme Court.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing. I'm tired to death of hearing how important it is that a woman be on the Court. It's insulting to professional women. Her uterus shouldn't be her most important qualification.

29 posted on 10/04/2005 5:55:10 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: BillM
Ron and Strom were out front on their own. Miers is a hangerson opportunist, riding someone Else's coat tails.
30 posted on 10/04/2005 5:56:44 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: conservativecorner

"Further, she was specifically recommended for this position by Harry Reid, the outspoken and liberal leader of Senate Demo"

Harry Reid doesn't know her like Bush knows her. Look for some "crawfishing" by the Dims as her leanings become more evident.


Finally, the most telling piece of her record is the pattern of policy initiatives to come out of the White House during her tenure as the president’s top lawyer. During her year, the Bush Administration has emphasized big government at the expense of the Constitution. The recent suggestion by the president – which he undoubtedly developed with his legal counsel – that the federal government take over disaster response from the states, and put the military in charge, spits in the face of the Tenth Amendment.


And Harriet Miers signed off on it.

Rank speculation. The author nor anybody else other than Bush or Miers know what her transpired.

She says she supports what the framers of the Constitution wanted, but as the president’s top lawyer she didn’t stop him from going against the clear intent of those same framers.

Absolute garbage. Since when does a presidential counsel "stop" POTUS from doing anything. Again no one has any clew as to what she advised the president to do.

This article is chock full of speculation and tortured logic. The conclusions of the author are based on nothing more than his own imagination.



31 posted on 10/04/2005 5:57:41 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: truthandlife

Also, they are already complaining that they will not be able to see the inside records and papers of what went down in her White House job, because of both attorney client privilege and executive privilege. LOL


32 posted on 10/04/2005 5:58:31 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Callahan

GROW UP PEOPLE!!!


We don't live in your little perfect world where President's make decisions that meet your own personal very narrow criteria. We live in a nation full of opinions, persuasions, and diversity. President Bush chose who he chose. She is NOT a bad candidate. From everything I have read about her, she is better than we could have hoped for. Is she known? Not in national circles. BUT WHO CARES!!!! Is she qualified? As much as many of the justices of the past. She is a conservative, possibly pro-life, attorney who is a hard worker, detail oriented and a strict constructionist. She is an evangelical Christian who answers to an even higher power than the President. And "we" want to cast her aside. Y'all are a bunch of reactionary idiots who want to cut your nose off to spite your face. This kind of attitude will spell defeat for us in the future. "We" are a bunch of whiney cry baby idiots who through infantile tantrums if someone isn't EXACTLY like we want them. Grow up!
33 posted on 10/04/2005 5:58:37 AM PDT by Blogger
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To: shortstop

Ronald Reagan left the Democratic Party and became a Republican in the late 60s early 70s.

Phil Gramm was a Democrat when Reagan was elected in 1980. He became a Republican in the 80s.

Richard Shelby, southern Democrat became a Republican in the 90s.

Big deal that she used to be a democrat.


34 posted on 10/04/2005 5:58:56 AM PDT by linkinpunk
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To: Doc Savage
....better candidates

I understand that Miers vetted all the others for the president. All the ones that the "kill-our-own" conservatives are clamoring for are people ID'd by Miers.

The last time Bush did something like this was when he had Dick Cheney vetting possible VP candidates for the Pres's first run for office.

The Pres later said that he had the best candidate right under his nose.

You got any complaints about Cheney?

35 posted on 10/04/2005 6:03:51 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: syriacus
During the Reagan Revolution, she was a Democrat.

From http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1179

We're all familiar with Winston Churchill's adage about the need to be liberal in youth and conservative when mature, and many, many folks do follow that pattern.  Most notoriously the entire neoconservative movement is made up of former liberal intellectuals who shifted to the Right during the 60s and 70s.  Then in the 80s and 90s a second wave--[snip]--followed suit, to one degree or another. 

36 posted on 10/04/2005 6:04:56 AM PDT by syriacus (Dour, dour, liberal scowler -- Angry men without much power)
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To: shortstop
Lonsberry has summed it up pretty well. He's worth the read.

Alas, no. Lonsberry yaps and whines. This is no exception.

37 posted on 10/04/2005 6:05:08 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Blogger
Grow up is right!

I'm beginning to wonder if our lives are so dull, we live & breath nothing but beltway politics.

Think I'll return to the real world until the next election cycle to vote against the Socialists.

Dear Libs: you might control Entertainment, Newspapers, the Courts and Schools, but I can still vote your a$$ out of office and keep my wallet closed for your endeavors.

38 posted on 10/04/2005 6:05:54 AM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: paul544

You just insulted some FREEPERS with your sarcasm. Do you have anything intelligent to say regarding this nomination, or will you just be hurling insults?


39 posted on 10/04/2005 6:05:56 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: Blogger
Y'all are a bunch of reactionary idiots who want to cut your nose off to spite your face. This kind of attitude will spell defeat for us in the future. "We" are a bunch of whiney cry baby idiots who through infantile tantrums if someone isn't EXACTLY like we want them. Grow up!

ROFLOL! I've never seen a bigger bunch of mindless crybabies than have what has popped out of the woodwork over this nomination.

40 posted on 10/04/2005 6:07:22 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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