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Ann Coulter: Miers a 'Complete Mediocrity'
Newsmax ^ | Monday, Oct. 3, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; bushbetrayal; bushbotrage; bushlies; coulter; harrietmiers; miers; notscalia; notthomas
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To: Right Wing Professor
That all you got Professor? Texas was a democrat state, conservative democrats and liberal democrats. I know that becuase i was stationed there for a few years. Democrats everywhere.

You stated she wanted Dukakis to be President. That means it's up to you to provide evidence of that assertion not evidence that she was a democrat. We all know that.

I'll be here when you find that evidence.

341 posted on 10/03/2005 5:55:18 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: wardaddy

Think we might see some good fights
and bannings? I hope so.
I like a lot Freecitement


342 posted on 10/03/2005 5:55:54 PM PDT by WKB (If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
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To: Pharmboy
True but the Reagan effect didn't really kick in until RR left office. At that point Reagan democrats began the pilgrimage to the Republican party.

It took time for lifelong JFK democrats to bite that bullet.

343 posted on 10/03/2005 5:58:07 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Right Wing Professor; sinkspur
Rehnquist clerked for a Supreme Court Justice. Miers clerked in a District Court. Rehnquist went to Stanford and Harvard and was valedictorian at Stanford. Miers went to SMU. Rehnquist served as Assistant Attorney General. Miers is Bush's personal lawyer, and White House counsel; neither post requires confirmation.

Excellent post, Professor! What sayest thou, sinkspur?

344 posted on 10/03/2005 5:59:32 PM PDT by curiosity (Cronyism is not Conservative)
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To: jwalsh07
You stated she wanted Dukakis to be President. That means it's up to you to provide evidence of that assertion not evidence that she was a democrat. We all know that.

Sure, she donated to his party five days before an election where he was heading the ticket, but that isn't evidence she wanted him elected. People donate right before an election, well, because it's just the fall colors are so pretty, it gets them in a generous mood.

345 posted on 10/03/2005 6:00:47 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Sort of like you trusted him to fight affirmative action, guard the borders and hold down federal spending.

Affirmative action isn't even on the radar screen of concern for anyone I know of, so that's a strange complaint. The borders are, and I'm not happy with Bush about ignoring the HUGE illegal alien problem.

You seem to forget that the President doesn't SPEND ONE THIN DIME. CONGRESS does and CONGRESS is the problem! They have appropriated all the money for their pork barrell spending and tacked it onto vital legislation. Bush shouldn't get all the bullsh*t blame for out of control Congressional spending, especially since congress refuses to give him the line item veto.

No one can predict with certainty the kind of justice Miers will be, but she is our President's choice. I know him to be a man of faith and he has known Harriet Miers for many years and knows her well. He knows her much better than any of the other potential nominees and for that, we should probably be grateful, given the fact that many nominees have been a disappointment once on the court.

In the end, EVERY pick comes down to trust and with so much at stake, I'd like to think Bush is confident in her philosophy, ability and loyalty. This evening, after hearing James Dobson confirm his suport for Harriet Miers, it made my heart sing. He's gotten confirmation that Miers is indeed a true-blue conservative.

Bush HAD to have considered the affect this pick will have on the country, thus his legacy. I would imagine the sting of his father's fatal Souter appointment has made a HUGE impression on him.

I trust that Bush learned from the sins of his father and has selected someone he KNOWS will be loyal to the Constitution and to him. He has to realize the fate of our country, his legacy and the GOP will essentially lie in Harriet Miers hands. If he's comfortable with that, then I think the rest of us should at least give him the benefit of the doubt and keep our powder dry.

Knee jerk Republicans aren't doing our cause any favors and I really wish they'd take a deep breath and trust in what our President promised us.

346 posted on 10/03/2005 6:01:02 PM PDT by demkicker (Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?)
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To: AmericaUnited

He could have appointed Janice Rogers Brown, Luttig or Owens and everyone here would have cheered...

Ed


347 posted on 10/03/2005 6:01:44 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: sinkspur

OK, you're right, not at the SCOTUS:

Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.

After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan.


348 posted on 10/03/2005 6:02:09 PM PDT by johnb838 (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- AuH2O)
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To: jwalsh07
The Prof already showed she donated to the DNC in November of 1988. Virtually all the money donated to national parties in a presidential election year go toward the Party's presidential nominee.

At any rate, I her ideology is really a side issue. Fact is, no nominee so utterly lacking in competence should ever be nominated, regarless of her ideology.

Ideology is no substitute for competence.

349 posted on 10/03/2005 6:02:34 PM PDT by curiosity (Cronyism is not Conservative)
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To: sinkspur
Could you cite for me the last time any Senator, Democrat or Republican, who asked a nominee who they voted for or gave money to fifteen years earlier?

That's irrelevant. Use the information you are aware of. You seem to be making a "Senators know best" argument even though we have seen what they have given us on the SCOTUS. I don't understand why you would expect conservatives to ignore common sense and to put all of their faith into those who selected Kennedy/Souter/O'Conner without wanting to consider that the current nominee gave large sums of money to Michael Dukakis five days before the 1988 Presidential election in the final push before election day.

What side are you on?

350 posted on 10/03/2005 6:04:35 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (How do we prevent someone from torching his city if he will be rewarded as a lottery winner?)
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To: Right Wing Professor

" If she'd had her way, Dukakis would have won."

LOL. ouch....


351 posted on 10/03/2005 6:04:59 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: Non-Sequitur

A Party of One.
A Ship Without a Rudder.
Same $hit, Differnt Day.
I Win, You Win. (Thank's Bush)


352 posted on 10/03/2005 6:05:15 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: curiosity
Excellent post, Professor! What sayest thou, sinkspur?

Rehnquist had no more experience as a jurist than Meirs has.

353 posted on 10/03/2005 6:06:44 PM PDT by sinkspur (Breed every trace of the American Staffordshire Terrier out of existence!)
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To: curiosity

I don't want to be too hard on the woman. She's had a fine career. But she's not a constitutional lawyer, she's had no experience writing opinions, she's spent her entire career representing Microsoft et al., in her limited public service she jacked up property taxes 7% - you have to ask yourself, with a good hundred better qualified conservative jurists around -WHY?


354 posted on 10/03/2005 6:07:36 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Hank Rearden

The consensus seems to be that we are all Democratic party operatives and trolls if we are disappointed by this horrible pick!

Bizarre...

Ed


355 posted on 10/03/2005 6:07:50 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: curiosity
"And it doesn't bother you that she has exactly zero experience as a judge?"

Doesn't bother me much.... that's valuable, no doubt, but there have been such exceptions in the past, AND her experience in both the private sector and the executive branch of the federal government far far surpasses that of any SCOTUS justice I am aware of..... THOSE are valuable qualifications, too. I like the fact that when justices are deliberating there will be one who has actually had to wrestle with the toughest issues of waging the war on terror, etc. It is said that Miers has handled almost every piece of paper that ever crossed GW's desk as President, and I think it will be very valuable to have a justice who's been part of such discussions and knows a lot about the hardest issues a President faces..... I also like having a justice who has seen the real effects of tort abuses, etc. in our economy.... our judiciary has been far too dominated by academic liberals, and someone with extensive experience in both the private sector and the Bush WH could be a real breath of fresh air. I'm not wild about her, I need to learn a lot more, but I'm definitely not ready to disparage her out of hand as many are doing.....
356 posted on 10/03/2005 6:08:30 PM PDT by Enchante (Would you trust YOUR life to Mayor Nagin or Governor Blankhead?)
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To: Jim_Curtis
What side are you on?

I'm on whatever side it is that can get you to shut the hell up.

357 posted on 10/03/2005 6:09:19 PM PDT by sinkspur (Breed every trace of the American Staffordshire Terrier out of existence!)
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To: MadIvan
Good post, Ivan.

Party loyalty does not trump the constitution.

358 posted on 10/03/2005 6:09:36 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: WKB

so far, can't say I'm surprised at how freepers I know are breaking over this


359 posted on 10/03/2005 6:09:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (stealth schmealth)
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To: nickcarraway

Climbing aboard this thread late....all the clever quips must have been quipped by now. But I need to add something serious anyway:

I wonder what Ms. Mier has on Bush that she could hold over his head and say, "Nominate me or I'll tell." Nothing short of blackmail seems a logical reason to award her the august post.


360 posted on 10/03/2005 6:09:56 PM PDT by Veto! ( Left Coaster with nothing to fear but quakes and volcanos--and liberals)
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