I guess we'll just have to see what we see. Picking a fight just to pick a fight is NOT why you do it. And over the past five years I am more and more pissed at the so called "Republican majority" in the Senate who has proven time and again they are so moderated in their majority and not a strong conservative majority that will act like the majority, and have allowed the Senate to be held hostage by the democrat minority TIME AND AGAIN! I'm sick of that and have NO confidence in the Republicans in the Senate. Not as a majority. And do you not remember the fact that we got Kennedy and Suiter on the SCOTUS because the real hard conservatives were defeated? Well the fact is the Republican Senate majority of today does not act with anymore authority or sense of purpose than the Republican minority in the Senate did back then. That's just a fact. If the end result is that Miers is a strong conservative constructionist on the court, THAT IS ALL I CARE ABOUT! I would like to see a fight but that kind of deliberate confrontational state of mind is NOT what built the conservative majority. It was built on doing what was right being vocal about it and standing by it, and someone like Miers with her history and personal beliefs are clearly in line with that philosophy. The idea that it would be better somehow if she was some elitist harvard grad who had been a judge the past ten years and made all the beltway parties in D.C. is assinine on so many levels.
We are in agreement up to this point.
Well the fact is the Republican Senate majority of today does not act with anymore authority or sense of purpose than the Republican minority in the Senate did back then. That's just a fact.
Again, we agree.
If the end result is that Miers is a strong conservative constructionist on the court, THAT IS ALL I CARE ABOUT! I would like to see a fight but that kind of deliberate confrontational state of mind is NOT what built the conservative majority. It was built on doing what was right being vocal about it and standing by it...
You are on a roll.
The idea that it would be better somehow if she was some elitist harvard grad who had been a judge the past ten years and made all the beltway parties in D.C. is assinine on so many levels.
Here, you have me confused with someone else. You have been valiant defending your position, but so much activity, defending so many arguments, has falsely led you to attribute to me an argument I have not made. I think Miers will do well. The substance of my posts has been that the conservative movement fares better by openly stating its positions and proudly waving the banner--and if that stance demands a confrontation with our enemies, better now than later. If we can't get a capital C, vocal, known conservative into the Supreme Court with a Republican president and a Republican Senate, then the time is nigh to replace them. The president is acting like he is afraid to carry the conservative banner. My problem is not with Miers. It is with those who would delegitimize conservatism in the public eye.