Posted on 04/19/2007 11:49:23 AM PDT by Rick Vassar
I prefer to think of Pres. Bush as a sincere, straightforward man who sometimes makes mistakes and has the humility to correct them when he realizes that's what he's done.
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Methinks the author gives Bush too much credit. He's not anywhere as dumb as the left thinks, but he is not in total command either.
IMO, he didn’t have a plan except getting Miers on there. I’m just glad he finally listened to the base; if only he had done that on immigration. Oh well.
“Don’t forget, if he had his way Harriet Miers would have been on the court.”
I still contend that this nomination was designed to wake the Conservatives up. It also opened up the door for Conservatives to sit out the 2006 election cycle.
In hindsight, if Bush puts up Alito instead of Miers, we might still have majorities in both houses.
“This is a very Catholic thing that just happened, even if everyone is afraid to say so out loud.”
Loud or soft, it’s nonsense. It was just the obvious right thing to do. Supreme court justices don’t take orders from the Pope when it comes to the US Constitution.
“He just got complacent. Also, unlike John Kerry and Al Gore, it was never his lifelong goal to become President. He’s never had any sort of “grand vision” for transforming the country. He ran as a “compassionate” conservative, not a traditional conservative. And that’s pretty much how he’s run his Presidency. Miers was a Rovian plot, not bush.”
Complacent, or lost all focus perspective?
I think Meirs was simply a serious error in political judgement.
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