Posted on 10/03/2005 4:06:25 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
Some of the Freepers squawking about the pick would not support anyone without a track record they like. That track record would also mean the person could not be confirmed.
Personally, I would rather have a nominee that President Bush knows and trusts, and might have a chance to be confirmed, than someone everyone knows has no chance whatsoever of being confirmed.
Some of the opposition on this board, of course, is from liberals in disguise. FR is high profile enough that some of our posters are really from the other side, here to sow doubt and confusion. The easily spotted trolls get zotted, but the clever ones can spread their poison for quite a while.
Look back to 1988/87.
"I see, however, that law school does seem to teach the graduates how to put words in other people's mouths and how to brilliantly display your own bad manners."
And you're surprised by that?? lol
My post 632 you were responding to has been removed by Admin Moderator.
This is the first time I've seen a post supporting the President removed.
This pick is most definitely stealthy, that is certain.
But we have yet to ascertain if it is "conservative."
David Frum--not my favorite guy-- has described her as an anxious, nervous woman (not a rock like Scalia who can withstand the liberal attacks) who is not likely to be able to maintain her conservatism, such as it is, in hte face of mean-spirited attacks from the organized Left.
They'll say she's an unqualified crony who never married (They'll say, "How can she decide who can marry and who can't?" and never had kids (they'll say, " You chose not to have any kids, how can you force a poor woman with an unwanted pregancy to have a child?"
She, per Frum, will crack under the pressure.
I threw it out there a few posts back. So far I have one in agreement and one who thinks I'm delusional. No other comments. And here I thought it was pretty astute... :)
Look, if Miers turns out to be good I'll send her a personal letter of apology for my questioning posts here. But on the morning of Oct. 3, 2005, the only opinion I can offer is that I think the president could've done better.
Given the trend to appear to replace like with like (or even left of like), that's not exactly encouraging.
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Which is exactly why I think Bush will go for the known conservative in the next fight. He does not do the "conventional" wisdom.
Let us watch what all passes through Congress this fall, while the dems are watching this nominee; they think they have Frist on the ropes and DeLay down for the count.
I expect lots of things to pass under the radar, including more tax reduction.
Why was your post pulled?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Why not do some research instead of slandering her?
"IF she is a Christian, I wholeheartedly change my expressed doubts. We don't have an evangelical Christian on the Court (and to my knowledge haven't had for at least half a century) and I would turn cartwheels to get one."
She's an evangelical according to World Magazine Blog:
Miers has been a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas for 25 years, where Hecht has been an elder. He calls it a “conservative evangelical church… in the vernacular, fundamentalist, but the media have used that word to tar us.”
On abortion, choosing his words carefully for an on-the-record statement, he says “her personal views are consistent with that of evangelical Christians… You can tell a lot about her from her decade of service in a conservative church.”
http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/
She was a prominent member of the ABA, so of course they're gonna support her.
Now, why don't we wait to see more about her instead of leaping to conclusions from three or four minor factoids?
Bush shouldn't care what McCain and Specter say. They're not the president. They would have come around. Thomas would not be on the Supreme Court if it wasn't for Specter. Specter would have come around or been run off the chairmanship. McCain would have come around because he wants to be president.
Now, it would have taken some balls on the part of Bush to nominate Luttig or Jones. I mistakenly thought he had some.
(Give facts please......educate the 'rahrah' crowd who is researching facts and finding out just who this woman really is, before echoing DNC talking points or having a hissy fit.......please).
Let's not be so sure that Ginsburg and Stevens won't outlast Bush. This, sadly, is probably Bush's last pick.
So do I..
I simply don't understand why you are so defensive about it.
Because you stated false, ignorant, and woefully wrong evaluations as fact of a profession and course of study. (This is called lying. They teach us not to do it in our classes. Don't they teach you not to do it in law school?). I dislike lies, mistruths, and misrepresentations. It not only is sloppy thinking, but is an insult to much of a course of study I respect. Your off-hand statements were patently false and were obviously made due to a personal bias.
Furthermore, Business is not some "inborn" talent like perfect pitch. Businessmen are self-made, not born. Good businessmen learn the same subjects whether or not they attend business school. They don't just magically appear. And your assertion is yet again a biased dismissal of business as a legitimate and rigorous course of study. Wonder why you have such animus against it?
Statements like yours are insulting to my profession, they are based on nothing factual, and they are common among those who have no exposure to business school curricula.
In short, I dislike people lying about things of which they have no clue. Hope that explains things better for you.
If you can't see the danger in nominating a professional bootlicking administrator to the SCOTUS, well, then you'll get the country you deserve, dirtboy.
Bush made his promise, and he didn't keep it. He didn't say that he'd nominate jurists like Scalia and Thomas only if dirtboy thinks they'd pass the Senate. He promised to nominate those types of judges and he broke his promise.
History will record this nomination as another disaster for anyone who opposes pushing the leftist's socialist agenda through the court system. A capitulation by President Bush which will reflect very poorly and for a long time to come on Republican leaders in general.
I know my circle of influence will gladly hear me out on this.
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