Harriet Miers the pick AP

[johnmecainrino]

Harriet Miers

[trisham]

I'd bet my bottom dollar that a lot of these so-called conservatives with their over the top emotional outbursts are regulars on DU.....

LET'S DEAL ONLY IN FACTS, SHALL WE PEOPLE??

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Agreed.

[uptoolate]

I agree. We need to relax and be patient. Let's not jump to conclusions and REACT off of immediate EMOTIONS. Usually those kinds of reactions are left to the libs. Let's see how this unfolds. She still has to go through the committee which has some true conservatives on it.

[Willie Green]

I think his MBA is showing.....GWB isn't a typical politico so his decisions are sometimes much deeper and harder to read.

Actually, his NWO corporate globalism is boringly predictable...
Middle Class America is merely a market to be plundered until our economic aspirations are reduced to Third World parity.

[TTRR]

Cindy. So does this mean Hillary, gets your Big Vote on 08?

[kabar]

No, I suspect that she will take whatever route is politically expedient. Once she started to work for Bush and hitch her wagon to his star, she had no real choice at that point. Bush's victory got her a WH appointment and now a SCOTUS appointment.

Now that she has a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS, she no longer has to play the game. She can express her true views without any penalty.

[Fawn]

. However, if a person made a steady habit of watching such shows or reading such literature, you are exposing yourself to a weakening of your moral values.

We agree here except--they are weakening "ALL" societies MORAL VALUES...not just their own (their support keeps in on the air and shows approval to others..like kids)....and MANY people who are blasting Bush about this unknown person WATCH THIS SHOWS RELIGIOUSLY. IT's hypocritical.
As far as Bush being influenced by his daughter and wife---..I disagree...he's taken opposite views of Laura on a few issues....he is definitely his own man.

[Black Tooth]

I think one thing we can say about Miers is that GWB knows her personally

Well that's different!

:o

[Howlin]

It's true.

What's true? My suspicion that one of the reasons you're trying to smear this woman is because you may be what you're accusing her of?

Sorry you can't deal with that.

What I can't deal with is your disgusting implications about a good woman, not to mention slamming a lot of women on FR who aren't married; of course, you have to realize that, so one has to assume that your disdain for Miers applies to them, too, doesn't it?

You are even deflated by this pick

Now you're a mind reader? Unlike you, I'm waiting for the fact; and when I get the facts, even if I don't like them, I won't be defaming her character.

I would bet my house that if you are married in real life, your spouse is miserable.

You're a prig.

[Cindy_Cin]

your points were somewhat comforting
thanks

[faithincowboys]

What is he supposed to produce? Photos?

[Cboldt]

You are missing the historical context. The ABA leadership officially adopted a Pro-Abortion position. Much of the general membership was outraged. The tactic used by the alienated Pro-Life membership in response to the Pro-Abortion leadership was to demand a full vote of all members. This was the "Pro-Life" position in this controversy. You need to understand this.

Miers' comments at the time, the one I've read, doesn't make that point at all. The objection to the the ABA taking a position was framed exclusively in terms of "this is too important an issue, and a leadership-only adoption on this divisive issue may marginalize the ABA."

In hindsight, Miers was likely correct. I would think that the ABA lost membership over the position taken.

And the only point I've been trying to make is that her poisition in advocating a full vote does not indicate which side whe would vote for. We just don't know, based on this. Bush cheerleaders marginailze their credibility by using this event as evidence that Miers is herself pro-life.

[winstonchurchill]

She's effing 60 and never married....

You need to knock that off.

I disagree. For appointments to subsidiary courts, how good a lawyer one is can be the predominate question, because the task is to take superior court precedents and mold a decision. But the liberals (with the acquiescence of the conservatives) have converted the Supreme Court to an on-going, unelected legislature, expressing preferences for various 'policy' options. According, how good a lawyer one is is almost irrelevant at the Supreme Court.

It is no good to say that "a new conservative majority will change that," any more than a new conservative majority in Congress has changed the preference for pork and unrestrained spending. It will not. Whomever is appointed and confirmed will be another vote in the 9-man legislature we call the "Supreme Court" for the rest of his (or her) life.

No aspect of a person is a better indicator of their likely policy preferences than their choices in life experience. Are we really surprised that a goofy, hermit-like bachelor from the wilds of New Hampshire has his head turned by the flattering chatter of Washington social life and votes a straight liberal line once he is voted to the SC?

Now, we get another one. This time, a 60-year, post-menopausal female who has chosen never to marry, never to have a family and, instead, work long hours devoted to a law firm. Surely, this must tell us something of her life priorities. Is this not relevant in divining her predictable policy preferences?

Finally, remember, after eight years of the overwhelming, breathtaking evidence of the correctness of Ronald Reagan, this female supported Bentsen and Gore.

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Most important to me in this appointment -- and the point many here miss -- is that Bush has now confirmed Clinton's fondest hope -- the establishment of a second set-aside female seat on the SC. So we will now have, going-forward, one set-aside 'black' seat (the Thurgood Marshall - Clarence Thomas seat), two (2) female seats (the Sandy O'Connor-Harriet Miers seat and the Ruth Ginsberg seat) and soon we will have the compulsory 'Hispanic' seat (the Alberto Gonzales seat?). So, we will now have only five members of the Court selected primarily on ability even in a Republican administration. This is truly tragic.

[SONbrad]

You are a very despicable person. Your 'assumptions' and 'innuendos' are sick and sophomoric.

[West Coast Conservative]

http://frum.nationalreview.com/archives/09292005.asp#077899

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.

[piperpilot]

I just saw this on Drudge:

On a conference call this morning, former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie admitted sheepishly that Miers was a Democrat througout the 1980s; asked specifically about the Gore contribution, Gillespie said that she was a 'conservative' democrat who later became a republican... Developing...

It just keeps getting worse.

[sinkspur]

this is just one of many slaps in the face to the conservative bas voters by Mr Appeasement GW Bush

Here a month, and you already fancy yourself speaking for conservative base voters.

Weird.

[Howlin]

I disagree.

Then you're ignorant, too.

[cyborg]

Saw his soul??? LOL!!!! Pooty Poot has no soul.

[montag813]

"On a conference call this morning, former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie admitted sheepishly that Miers was a Democrat througout the 1980s; asked specifically about the Gore contribution, Gillespie said that she was a 'conservative' democrat who later became a Republican..."

A Democrat during Reagan. A Republican during Bush. Lovely.

[Junior_G]

When Democrats put hard-core leftists on the court like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Bush is stacking the court with mushy-middle friend-of-the-family "diversity" picks, then it should come as no surprise when the court continues to trend leftward. The next Democrat president won't try to coddle the Republicans with their pick. It'll be another nasty one.