The Coming Explosion Over Miers – Redux (Too many conservatives going off half-cocked.)

The American Thinker ^ | October 3, 2005 | Thomas Lifson

[quidnunc]

Rush Limbaugh has found the information that Harriet Miers is an evangelical Christian, a member of a church in Dallas that most would describe as "fundamentalist." I believe that this vindicates my earlier analysis based on mistaken information about a Ministry supported by Ms. Miers.

Blue state fundamentalists tend to hate evangelicals the way that Islamists hate Jews: viscerally. It will take enormous willpower for many of them to avoid saying that one who believes in the literal word of the Bible should not be allowed a place on the Supreme Court. They played footsie with the position that a devout Catholic would be disqaualified.

To partially quote my earlier post: this is a battle the Democrat left can't win with a majority of the American public, which sees religious faith as a good thing. As far as I am concerned about the coming attacks, Dirty Harry summed up my feelings: "Go ahead — make my day."

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[Raycpa]

Bush's past choices for Texas cronies has been good so far.

[McGavin999]

It should be added that Scalia and Thomas are not constructionists, they are originalists.

Funny you should say that, if you go to the website of the church Ms. Miers has attended for the past 25 years they say that is their spiritual philosophy as well. Hmmmmm, interesting?

[redgirlinabluestate]

I keep hearing that, and from what I can tell, it's probably a good thing that Miers isn't a typical pointy-headed deconstructionist straight from Yale Law School.


EXACTLY!! Enough with the liberal, elitist Ivy Leaguers. I think Harriet will be a breath of fresh air...

[Judith Anne]

Yes, I went and looked up their ages. See #68 above.

[Ninian Dryhope]

The President knows her very well. He thinks she is the best choice for the Supreme Court. A perusal of her resume shows that she is very well qualified. She has had a very impressive career. One does not become the President of the Texas Bar Association without having lots on the ball. By the same token, one does not become the President's personal lawyer without having lots on the ball.

All those wonderfully intelligent lawyers with those wonderfully impressive resumes and yet it is good old George Bush, the guy with the average grades and average SAT scores, who gets to select a Roberts or a Miers or not. George Bush is the President of the United States. He ran for office. He won the elections. To the victor belongs the spoils. He gets to make the selection. History will decide if he chose wisely or not, but for now, the President will rightly ignore the ankle biters and second guessers.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"Why should I support the pick?"

Who cares if you do or do not? You do not get to vote on this nomination. She is in, with or without your support.

[hsalaw]

"The anger being expressed by conservatives isn't about Harriet Miers bonifides as a conservative. It is about not having a big fight in the Senate."

I think you hit the nail on the head, here. After all the Sheehanigans, the hysteria of the media on Katrina, the negative reporting on the WOT, the anti-American "piece-of-sh*t" march, and every other attack on Pres. Bush and other conservatives, I think we just want to hit back and were itching for a big fight on this, just to have a big fight. But, as Rush noted, it's the Senate and I worry about those RINOS.

[jpeg82]

"The Vice-President did interviews with Rush and Hannity today

He did the same when Roberts was nominated.

[AHerald]

We conservatives need to pipe down until the facts are all in instead of going off half-cocked.

Spare us your commonsense, man! ... The monsters are on Maple Street! The aliens have landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey! There are witches to be burned!

[Ninian Dryhope]

"I can say that they are some of the most closely reasoned documents you will ever read."

Sandra Day O’Connor's affirmative action opinion was one of the stupidest things I have ever read.

[Judith Anne]

Miers will be fine. She'll get 90 votes to confirm and will do us proud. She's no Souter.

Agreed. ;-D

[185JHP]

I liked Barry Goldwater a lot. I wasn't old enough to vote for him, but I hoped he'd win. But his platform wasn't salable enough in '64 to win the big prize. And it isn't salable enough to win the big prize now. Too much greed, selfishness, and "you have to take care of me - I'm lazy and stupid" thinking. And too many who like below-market subsidized college loans...

[Reactionary]

"Enough with the liberal, elitist Ivy Leaguers. I think Harriet will be a breath of fresh air..."

You're exactly right. Most ordinary people on Free Republic have a better understanding of the actual *text* of the Constitution than the entire graduating class of Yale Law School. Why anyone would say that an elite law school makes someone *better* qualified is a mystery to me.

Why? The dirty little secret is that what's taught at our elite universities has nothing at all to do with either the tradition of natural rights or the Founding of America. Everyone knows this of course, but now they seem to have suddenly forgotten all about it.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Bush the Elder did not personally Souter like Bush the Younger knows Mier.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Edith Jones has been described with many superlatives-and I'm sure a few epithets as well-but I can't recall anyone describing her as "fire-breathing."

The same applies to Michael McConnell, Karen J. Williams, Miguel Estrada, among a host of other more qualified jurists.

You can choose to spin this however you like.

[Ninian Dryhope]

I stand corrected.

[Reactionary]

"This republic is too far gone to afford anything less than a paragon of judicial scholarship."

What "scholarship" would that be? Would it be the "scholarship" that our law schools promote?

If so, deconstruction and radical historicism isn't exactly much to bank on.

[aBootes]

I think she is a consensus builder.

I am interested in this. May I ask, without intent to insult, what makes you think so?

[Ninian Dryhope]

"So, the best case is that there's no more than a 90% chance that Bush will be able to choose one more Justice."

Thems pretty good odds.