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Ann Coulter: Miers a 'Complete Mediocrity'
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| Monday, Oct. 3, 2005
Posted on 10/03/2005 3:07:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Thom Pain
I resent that. When Clinton got to make a nomination, his base got Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was the big ACLU lawyer, who sailed through her confirmation. When Bush gets a nomination, he sends up Roberts and Meirs who is a lawyer for some firm in Texas that donated money to Gore and has no conservative credentials...I feel like he has quit on his base, not the other way around.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:29:48 PM PDT
by
chae
(American by birth, Angry by choice)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
We give a lot of lip service to strict constructionism, but I think that's all it is.Speak for yourself, RINO. You don't speak for the conservative movement.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:29:50 PM PDT
by
Paul Ross
("The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the govt and I'm here to help)
To: WV Mountain Mama
I'm sorry! ROFL! I think most reasonable people want exactly what you want. A judge who can read the Constitution, and not legislate from the bench. Your quote from Patrick Henry is perfect.
"The constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --Patrick HenryThank you for posting the wise words of Mr. Henry.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:29:57 PM PDT
by
Chena
(I'm not young enough to know everything)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
That's what I thought could happen, from my post 146: The democrats have been saying from the getgo that they are going to fight the next nominee. Maybe Bush, knowing this has picked a sacrificial lamb so to speak for the democratic wolves. He has it worked out with her that this is going to be ugly and she will probably not be passed by the senate. Perhaps they are doing this, to play the democrats fighting hand, and then they will choose an uber conservative constitutionalist. The nation will be tired and sick of the fighting over a judge and the people will be ready for their senators to just pick one already. Then again, I may be wrong.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:30:04 PM PDT
by
WV Mountain Mama
("Good? Bad? I'm the one with the gun." Ash Williams, "Army of Darkness")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
I don't get that sense at all. The fear is a legitimate one - of judges who regard the Constitution as a "living", "evolving" document, rather than a basic set of ground rules set in stone. We can see what dangers lie in the view of the Constitution as being mutable - note the violation of property rights that Souter endorsed. What is required is a judge who will strictly adhere to the idea that those ground rules are set in stone, and not act in favour of one group or another, but rather in defence of those rules.
We do not have enough information at this point to confirm that Miers believes this. Therein lies the problem; particularly since there were so many wonderful candidates available whose adherence to these principles was assured.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:30:56 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
To: GoldCountryRedneck
Probably the first Coulter thread that took 88 posts before the rule was applied.
To: EllaMinnow
Does that mean you shed the pounds every autumn and sprout new ones in the spring? :)Actually, it's quite the opposite. I add pounds in the autumn and shed them in the spring. Guess you could say I'm a dyslexic deciduously skinny, old greying haired lady. LOL
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:32:03 PM PDT
by
Chena
(I'm not young enough to know everything)
To: nickcarraway
"No. Shes something new: a complete mediocrity. Even more than the mediocrity of the candidate is the mediocrity revealed of the person who nominated her. "Birds of a feather............."
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:32:21 PM PDT
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: sinkspur
I find it interesting and telling that your posts are purely of the
ad hominem variety and that you don't even attempt to defend Miers on the merits.
Coulter pegged Miers as "mediocre." You're voicing support for that judgment in your own special way.
To: Glenn
From her 8 coworkers on SCOTUS. It is a real job with real work to be done. I doubt she's used to it.I don't see how you could possibly arrived at such a conclusion. Do you have something against lawyers who spent their careers in the private sector being nominated to SCOTUS?
To: rcocean
Why post a RNC memo if you don't agree with it? I get emails from Norman Lear's PAW group and don't post it.Oh for heaven's sake!!! Are you series? Duh, I don't know, why would I post a memo from the RNC that deals with the very topic of this thread. Hmmmmm, maybe because it was informative? Maybe because it may be worthy of reading, or discussing what the RNC was saying today? Don't worry, it wasn't a planned conspiracy. I promise. :)
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:34:08 PM PDT
by
Chena
(I'm not young enough to know everything)
To: Chena
Thanks! Love your tagline line by the way. I definitely have my work cut out for me tomorrow on reading up on Miers. Sometimes (well, usually) I learn more from reading what the other posters say, and not the news outlets.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:34:13 PM PDT
by
WV Mountain Mama
("Good? Bad? I'm the one with the gun." Ash Williams, "Army of Darkness")
To: Don Corleone
"Them's fightin' words pardner!"
Well, I admit it - I intended them to be.
I've never been terribly impressed by Miss Coulter and I think that were her name Andrew Coulter nobody here would give a rap what her views were.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:34:40 PM PDT
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: jwh_Denver
If this is true then the Republicans need to search like hell to bring more of this type of stuff up. What stuff?
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:35:30 PM PDT
by
Jim_Curtis
(How do we prevent someone from torching his city if he will be rewarded as a lottery winner?)
To: RedMonqey
I bet you one of the dying few who still think Souter as an conservative No. Bush's dad knew nothing about Souter other than what Rudman and Sununu told him.
Bush has been working with Harriett Meiers for TWELVE YEARS. He knows her, and likely learned more as she vetted the recent crop of SC potentials.
I honestly believe that the main reason behind the downcast faces here is that most wanted to get into a pissing contest with the Democrats on the judiciary committee.
Deep down, that's true, isn't it?
Why is it that Bush has named tremendous candidates to the Appeals Courts, but, all of a sudden, you guys think Bush has gone soft on appointments to the highest court in the land?
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:35:42 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(Breed every trace of the American Staffordshire Terrier out of existence!)
To: decal
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:35:55 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(The whole truth.)
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
I'd agree or disagree - except I don't understand your post. I have no idea who the UFPJ is.
Are you saying a modern day Truman would NOT be thought "right-wing" or the exact opposite?
Did Truman support Open Borders? Or Gay Marriage? Or Abortion? I think not.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:36:45 PM PDT
by
rcocean
(Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
To: Paul Ross
Speak for yourself, RINO. You don't speak for the conservative movement. I'm not speaking for it. I'm simply pointing out the logical inference to be gleaned from the response to this nomination. In the past I spoke of liberal whack-jobs running around screaming like a wagonload of chimpanzees with their asses on fire. That's an affliction apparently not confined to the left.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:38:05 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Always Right
If I knew how to add pictures I would have. Ann is still the babe for me! But obviously she has fallen out of favor here with the FReepers for reasons that have been expressed by various people here. That's alright. In the mean time, Ann will still go to bat for us and keep holding fire to the lying liberals feet.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:38:08 PM PDT
by
dmw
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Since when did asking for a genuinely conservative nominee, whose track record was a known quantity, make someone a reactionary? Did you feel the same way about Roberts? He wasn't very well known, and sailed through, and will make a great Chief Justice.
You want a war with the Democrats, and you ought to know by now that Bush doesn't play that way. Ever.
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posted on
10/03/2005 4:38:59 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(Breed every trace of the American Staffordshire Terrier out of existence!)
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