Posted on 10/03/2005 3:07:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Count Ann Coulter among the conservatives who are unhappy with President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
Asked by NewsMax.com if she considers Miers to be what she had called John Roberts after his nomination - a "tabula rasa” - Coulter, who’s now out with the paperback edition of her best-seller "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” said:
"No. She’s something new: a complete mediocrity.”
Ouch.
I am feeling more confident the more we learn about her. It has become so politcal and nasty. I just sense a bit of snobbery and that really bugs me. And, I truely believe President Bush is going to get a third pick!
I think you naysayers need to get off the pessimism and try a little positive thinking for onjce. Maybe Hillary or Gore or Kerry would have suited you better? Name one ****ing thing you would have or could have done to elect someone better. I am beginning to hate your types. You will sell the country out just for spite.
It bears repeating.
LOL!
Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska once said, when Richard Nixon nominated for the position of justice a lawyer, Harold Carswell, who was criticized for having an undistinguished record: "Even if he was mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises and Cardozos and Frankfurters and stuff like that there."
Or, to extrapolate from Sturgeon's Law, "Most of everything is mediocre."
You can't say that Miers would have been your first choice for this job, because she wasn't anyone's first choice, except for-apparently-President Bush.
Anne knows how to sell books. It remains to be established that the nominee is or is not conservative.
Rehnquist didn't either, when he was nominated 30 years ago.
Must have. There are purported "FReepers" hereabouts vigorously championing the very same SC nominee being so ardently and lavishly praised by Harry Reid.
Then again, I don't think we should be using either man as a barometer for how a reputedly conservative president should act while in office.
You are a frickin' broken record!
Nobody gives a damn about that, in case you haven't figured it out.
Is that how Rove spells, "Under the Radar"?
No, actually you are agreing with me. I was speaking specifically of Miers - a woman with no record as a judge. You don't know what you are going to get. But even with other judges (Blackmun comes immediately to mind), once they get that robe they are beholden to nobody and they will often rule like it.
The announcement was made this morning and all of a sudden everybody is an expert on her. Where'd all this info come from for so many to make such judgements on someone they don't even know? Weird.
Or Miers. Whatever, if W picked her, she must be good, who cares who she is, right?
Rehnquist had at least been Assistant Attorney General
Well, that's what happens when you're President. You get to send up your choice, not shapka broham's or sinkspur's.
That's the funniest line you've ever written on these boards...LOL!
[pot meet kettle; kettle meet pot]
"...she's just a skinny bimbo with some snappy patter."?
Good point. I was not aware of that. I just looked up his bio, and I agree his resume was not all that impressive, and I probably would not have been an enthusiasitc Rehnquist supporter back in 1971.
Nevertheless, his experience was vastly more impressive than Mier. He clerked for a Supreme Court Justice, and he held the #2 post at the Justice Department. I'd say on paper, he was about 10 times as qualified and Miers.
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