Whining about Miers.

Since I’m sure there are still many conservatives out there who are still upset and whining about Bush not nominating who they wanted, I’m wondering. Do you wish Bush had nominated who you wanted, even if it meant them not being confirmed and Bush being forced to pick a milk toast? I don’t think anyone can argue about the fact that the Republican majority in the Senate haven’t exactly acted with a spine or any kind of united strong conservative voice the four years they’ve been a majority. And it seems the larger their majority gets, the more its spine gets watered down.

This is a reality lesson in life. There are two ways to stand strong to your convictions and beliefs and not waiver. You can go about your life, putting your beliefs into practice, never bending, never breaking, never compromising, and whenever anyone asks what you believe, you tell them, politely, civilly, like how Miers has done it. OR, you can do it another way. You can be all those same things above, and you can also be very vocal, very "in your face", very confrontational, outspoken, and be very well known as to what you believe and stand for, so that if you come up for a position like Supreme Court Justice, it’s known immediately which side of the court you will always come down on. The Scalia / Thomas side, or the Ginsburg / Stevens side. The latter is the kind of person that Michael Luddig, Pricilla Owens, Edith Jones, or David Pryor, who I would sure support. Frankly that’s the kind of person I am, and I was hoping they'd of gotten this nomination. I’m not quite "in your face" with liberals unless confronted, but I also will not sit like a wall flower while people say stupid liberal things in the face of reality. I wouldn’t expect to be nominated for the SCOTUS either. Being that way is not bad in any way, but it is a problem. It’s guaranteeing a nasty, long, drawn out, ugly fight that would not even guarantee ALL the Republicans standing with the President. If Bush thought that the Republican majority in the Senate actually had a spine and would stand up to a fight, I think he would have likely put up someone like Juddig or Jones. I think this pick is an indictment on the complete and total lack of conservative will in the Senate majority. Heck, this woman he did pick stands as a solid conservative nominee with all those who have endorsed her, and not all Republicans are backing her. The bottom line is, Harriet Miers WILL be confirmed, and she much more likely than not, will prove to be a conservative, indications show she will be much like Scalia and Thomas. And if you voted for President Bush both times, like I did, or just one time, then you have to trust that he will keep his promise on Judges, like he has so faithfully kept it to this point. There hasn’t been one single Judge on the district, appellate or federal court level that Bush has nominated that hasn’t been a strong unbending conservative. And this is one fact I STILL can’t get around that frustrates me with those opposing Miers. Miers was pivotal in choosing ALL the Judges that Bush has nominated to all the courts the past five years, all of which have proven to be good solid conservatives that all the conservative voters have liked so much. Yet somehow the person who found, supported, and brought all those good conservative judges to the President, somehow isn’t good enough to be a judge herself when she’s accomplished all the things she’s done in her life? That is simply the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Especially after it’s been proven she said now she was worried that perhaps John Roberts might not be conservative enough. And some conservatives are still not supporting her? ARE YOU FRIKKEN KIDDING ME??? THAT is just simply elitism and nothing else.

I was worried initially, because I desperately wanted an Owens, or Luiddig, or someone just like them, someone that was nose to the wind, finger pointing and shaking to the left, well known vocal hard conservative, BUT, if the person put up instead of them is just like that, with the same conservative ideological beliefs, just isn’t a well known confrontational person who will unite all liberals and democrats and milk-toast weak RHINO Republicans against them, then I will choose the Miers over the Owens or Luddig EVERY TIME, because frankly I have NO FAITH in the Republican Senate majority, and while I am more like the judicial Luddig’s and Jones’s, I’ve still seen nothing that yet shows she’s any less conservative than they are. When she gave money to algore, he was pro-life and hadn’t taken the pink liberal without reason pill yet, and since then she has been nothing but a conservative loyalist on all levels, professionally, personally, and religiously. She voted for Reagan in ‘84, she voted for the first Bush in ‘88. Once she became a registered Republican she stayed Republican and voted and worked and donated that way even when clinton was President, even in ‘91 and ’92 when the democrats controlled both Houses of Congress. Not one person who really knows her has come out against her nomination. Frum is the only one I’ve heard of who has worked with her and doesn’t support her, and that was years ago and it’s not as though Frum doesn’t have his own agenda. None of Bush’s judges has disappointed. They’ve all been proven to be very conservative constructionist judges, and there is no reason to believe Miers will be any different. The arguments is stale and smacks of elitism at this point. I prefer someone who hasn’t been indoctrinated by the snobbery of Yale and Harvard liberalism, and has lived most all of her life in very conservative Texas. Even when Texas was majority Democrat, it was conservative and had nothing in common with the radical New England and left coast liberal bases of operation. Instead of being a judge she’s been actually arguing law from the conservative perspective, not sitting on high on a bench disconnected from reality. What is so wrong with that? She will be confirmed, and more and more, I believe she will prove herself to be a dedicated defender of the Constitution and what it REALLY says, not what stevens and souter and ginsburg wish or think it says. Her votes I believe will consistently fall right with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and John Roberts, and when that time comes, I hope all here who eviscerated her just because she’s not some elitist insider snob, or a speak first think second hothead that would inflame all democrats and RINOs in the Senate, will remember just how vacuous the opposition to her really was, and just how wrong it has proven to be. Given the past 20 years of her life, I can’t see any rational way she will betray all she has proven to stand for the past two decades. And if you voted for and supported W. Bush last year and in 2000, then for Pete’s sake, show just a little faith and trust in the guy and believe that he would have gotten to know this woman the past 10 years he’s had a close relationship with her. Have a little faith. With faith as small as a mustard seed, a mountain can be moved. I choose to have faith and pray that Harriet Miers will be the conservative strict-constructionist Justice that this nation desperately needs right now, and pray that she will have the strength and wisdom to adjudicate in that way, and continue to display and enforce the beliefs and convictions on the bench, that she has so strongly lived in her life.

See this is where you go wrong. Maybe if you really read all this below, you'll understand. Maybe. We'll see. You assume some things about me that you don't even know and can't substantiate. I give faith to no man freely. I am a Christian first and an American second and a Republican third. The day the Republican party stops standing for the principles of my first duty, is the day I stop being an American. And the day this country stops standing and fighting for the principles of its founders and the Bible they believed in, is the day I find another country to call home. I support Bush because of prayer and deliberation, not what party he belongs to or because he asked me to. I do not trust easily, and when I do, it is only until I have reason not to. I personally believe that the military should be placed on the borders, the Minute Men should be embraced and given grants, and that the budget should be trimmed and pork be eliminated. And when I first heard who got the nomination, I stood at the kitchen sink that morning, making my coffee, and loudly and angrily cursed Bush only because of who she WASN'T, not because of who she WAS! That was stupid, and that is what many conservatives have done, and they haven’t moved much past that since then unfortunately.

Then I did something truly radical! I actually went and looked at her history and what she's done with her life, what she's done on the Bush administration, what her beliefs are, what all she's done in her very conservative evangelical Church the past 20 years, how she's from Texas and always been conservative even when she was a Democrat when the whole STATE was HUGE MAJORITY Democrat controlled, the kind of person she is, who her friends are and how they are out supporting her and how they happen to be well known very conservative people and organizations. Along with the fact that her and Laura Bush are close friends, and only a fool would suggest that Laura Bush is anything BUT a strong conservative Christian. THEN I took the unprecedented action of praying that Bush was right and made the right call based on his decade+ long professional and personal relationship with her and she was a real constructionist that would adjudicate that way on the court, and I turned it over to God, that it would turn out that way. Now, I simply stand on that decision I made, until such time that it becomes evident that she was not a good pick, IF that happens.

To me, this is not primarily political. It is an act of faith after over a week of research, deliberation, weighing personal endorsements by those who are known conservatives and personally know her for many years, and in no small part, prayer. I simply do not feel in my heart that this is a mistake, like I remember feeling with Kennedy and Souter. I remember feeling that Scalia and Thomas was a home run while it happened, and that breyer and ginsburg were horrible cancers on the Judicial branch. I also recall never being too impressed with o'conner. And as it turns out, I was right on ALL of those. The same with Roberts so far. I used the same process when each happened to decide for MYSELF. Listening, research, deliberation, and prayer. So if my take on Miers is wrong, it will be the first time, and that happens, but NO ONE will convince me of that until it actually happens. NO ONE has a crystal ball, and until someone who is a proven conservative who has known Miers personally for years, comes out against her, no one has the insight or knowledge to prove that she is not right for the Supreme Court. That's just plainly flatly how it is from a factual standpoint in reality. Just like I believe that we will be victorious in Iraq because the cause is just and right, and freedom is the right of ALL humans, NOT just those lucky to have been born into a nation where it already existed before them. First and foremost though, I believe about this the way I do because I prefer to stand in strength in belief of what God willing, WILL BE, based on fact and evidence, and I choose NOT to stand in fear and trembling of what God forbid, MIGHT BE, based on agenda driven secular opinion and supposition from a distance. I guess it's just how I choose to see things. It's just that simple.

Time will tell. And in a few months, I don't believe those making these comments about Miers and Bush and those of us here supporting her nomination, will be here singing the same tune. Frankly, I don't think any of them will have the brass to be in any Miers thread at all, which is typically the case when someone goes out on a limb to vilify someone and is then proven wrong. If Miers turns out to be a souter or even an o'conner, I will be greatly disappointed, but ultimately all things happen for a reason, and I believe Bush to be a man of God who has prayed about this nomination, and I believe that Miers is a woman of God who believes her faith is meant to support the law of this land, not be removed from it in all ways. And given that believe, I don't know how else to proceed than to think that this nomination will be for the good of the country, and the SCOTUS. Bush has proven, if nothing else, that he is a Christian and he takes his relationship with and faith in God VERY seriously, and no one can or should question that. We will see.

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