Posted on 10/03/2005 7:27:41 AM PDT by SpringheelJack
Personally, lack of bench experience doesn't concern me. She works her tail off and cares very deeply about helping people. That more than compensates. Just so long as she doesn't have any closet leftist tendancies, that's what matters.
I second your question. Guessing what she's going to be like is a waste of time, finding out what she has really done may provide more info. And if she actually contributed to Gore she is not what we want. Hope it's not true.
*Very* good read on Dr. Miers over here...
free dixie,sw
She works her tail off and cares very deeply about helping people
Sounds like a liberal mindset to me...
Well Bush tends to use the people he is personally close to in order to do the big jobs. Cheney, Rice, Hughes. I am willing to give him the bennefit of the doubt that he has made the right choice. But I will look for the sign posts that the bennefit was giving properly.
For what it's worth, this is from Drudge
HUMAN EVENTS: Harriet Miers contributed $250 to Clinton for President Committee on December 23, 1991, according to Federal Election Commission records. She did not contribute any money to the reelection of President Bush senior, who would face off against the Democrat Clinton in the 1992 presidential election.
In 1988, Miers contributed $1,000 to the Democratic presidential primary campaign of then-Sen. Al Gore. At the time Vice President George H.W. Bush was in a Republican presidential primary fight with then-Sen. Dole and Kemp. She did not contribute to any of these Republicans...
WHY would you believe ANYTHING said by "an unnamed" source", which is "quoted" by the mainSLIME media???
i've had TOO MANY experiences where such "sources" turned out to be NONexistent! frequently, such "sources"/"quotes" turn out to be LIES, made up out of whole cloth!
free dixie,sw
With this description in mind, I am wondering what she had to do with the legalistic dithering that apparently delayed the federal response to Katrina. Maybe, what we are seeing is the first fruits of that White House investigation to make way for another WH counsel.
If she did give to Clinton-Gore, that would be a major can of worms.
Those folks will distrust any bush nominee, even one who swears that abortion is a constitutional requirement, because the first disability for a nominee is that a Crat did not make the nomination.
"With this description in mind, I am wondering what she had to do with the legalistic dithering that apparently delayed the federal response to Katrina."
No, that has something to do with states' rights. I'm glad he didn't invade a state and take control by force.
These folks would whine about her not having a dog if they thought she had a cat. They're predisposed to it.
Drudge's report not as bad as I'd feared.
Here's what Drudge linked to:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/03/D8D0KLSG6.html
Miers Gave to GOP Candidates, Democrats
Oct 03 11:14 AM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers gave $1,000 to Democrat Al Gore's unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988 _ and 12 years later contributed to the effort to end Gore's chance of winning the White House. [snip]
[Ok Gore was still pro-life then, if I'm not mistaken. He went pro-choice as VEEP selection, right?]
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In 1988, Miers, then a lawyer in private practice, donated $1,000 to Gore, the Tennessee Democrat then seeking the party's presidential nomination, according to Federal Election Commission reports. Gore eventually bowed out and Michael Dukakis secured the nomination.
In 2000, Miers contributed to the campaign of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who was running against Gore that year. When the votes were still being counted in Florida and the outcome was in doubt, she gave $5,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inc. Recount Fund, according to the non- partisan Political MoneyLine.
Through the years, Miers has contributed more than $10,000 to political candidates, focusing mainly on Texas Republicans such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rep. Pete Sessions and former Sen. Phil Gramm.
Miers also gave $1,000 to another prominent Democrat _ Lloyd Bentsen, the longtime Texas senator who in 1988 ran for re-election and also was Dukakis' vice presidential choice on the Democratic ticket that year.
Bentsen won another term in the Senate, but the Republican ticket of George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle defeated Dukakis and Bentsen.
Miers contributed $1,000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp. in 1988.
Miers gave some $5,000 to Bush's 2000 campaign and his 2004 re- election bid. She contributed $1,650 to the presidential inaugural committee that paid for some of the festivities surrounding Bush's swearing in to a second term.
You forgot the preceding qualifier - anonymous:
"One former White House official familiar with both the counsel's office and Miers is more blunt."
"Through the years, Miers has contributed more than $10,000 to political candidates, focusing mainly on Texas Republicans such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rep. Pete Sessions and former Sen. Phil Gramm."
Sounds good to me! OK, I think she's all right, unless something else comes out.
I would LOVE for it to have been Janice Rogers Brown, but if it makes you feel any better, Miers helped select Brown as an advisor to the president (just heard on the radio). Miers is a good person. The more I hear about her, the more I like her.
Some really good conservatives are supporting her.
I used to be a liberal, Dem, too, but look at me now!!
:)
Sometimes converts are the strongest in their convictions. I have found that to be true with people who have converted to Catholicism, for example.
Other than giving the POTUS the benefit of the doubt, this is a clear signal that GWB does not want a fight when he has a majority in the Senate. This is a clear flub for Dub.
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