Posted on 10/07/2005 10:07:47 AM PDT by ElephantsForever
From www.wyntonhall.com:
As I made clear in my immediate reaction piece for National Review Online, my problems with the president’s nomination of Harriet Miers have little to do with her qualifications, her scholarship, and certainly nothing to do with her collegiate pedigree...
No, my disappointment was in the level of political tone deafness the choice displayed...
...Is there anyone who can seriously argue that the Miers nomination has made the conservative base stronger and more united heading into the critical 2006 congressional midterm elections? Are conservatives more determined, more hopeful, more emboldened, more likely to precinct walk and volunteer at phone banks on behalf of the Republican Party because of this nomination?
Of course not...
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I hate blog pimps who think their work is breaking news.
From a political point of view this is just unjustifiable. It's demoralized the base. Bush will be forgiven without delay if he withdraws this nominee and nominates a well-qualified conservative.
If Miers isn't another Scalia, the consquences for the Republican party, especially those in the Senate, is going to be horrific. Everyone member of the gang of 14, especially those in red states, should have their futures tied to Miers.
I support the nominee until she is proven to be a liberal or incompetent. I trust the President has enough sense to not choose someone with either characteristic.
I make my decisions based on facts, not someone else's opinion. Period.
When are people of good faith (by definition that excludes Bush 'zoids) in the Republican Party going to realize that Bush and his coterie don't give a flying rat's patootie about the conservative base or Republican electoral prospects? Bush is to the Republican Party in 2006 what the Clintons were to the Dems in 1994. He's going to blow up the Party because he doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself.
He's not going to do it.
Now, you need to figure out how to deal with the fact that there will be hearings, and Miers will get a chance to sell herself to the Senate and to Americans.
If she screws up, the rest of us will be right there with you in opposing her. But, if she does not (and I don't believe she will), then she is going to be confirmed.
Unless it's Bush's opinion. Then it becomes "fact."
Hades will have central air-conditioning before you oppose anything Bush does.
I'm not supporting:
1) she is not the staunch conservative we were promised
2) she doesn't have the intellectual heft for dissenting opinion.
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