Posted on 10/03/2005 7:07:30 PM PDT by freedomdefender
As political activists rush to mine Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' slender public record, a former campaign manager says she opposed abortion rights while running for Dallas City Council in 1989.
"She is on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement," said Lorlee Bartos, who managed Miers' first and only political campaign and said they discussed abortion once during the race.
"I think Harriet's belief was pretty strongly felt," Bartos said Monday. "I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president."
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We shall see.
the left is willing to take their chances with a "blank slate" person regarding judicial record - they feel they can be molded on the court. let's face it, what could the left have expected to get here? an openly pro-Roe liberal nominee? not going to happen. so if given the choice between a Luttig or Owens, with a clear conservative record - and someone like Miers - they go with the best of those two options.
the risk here is on our side - we had our shot to make a pick, to fight it out if necessary. as Mark Levin said today - we need to have this fight, let's try and win it and show the Dems for what they are. instead, we ducked it, and we have to take our chances on a "gut feel", "trust us" approach for this opening on the court.
"I deal with scholars all the time. While they may be brilliant at theories, they couldn't make the lights work in their house if their life depended on it."
I agree. Actually, I was glad to see her undergraduate degree was in mathematics. Something that requires the ability to solve complex problems and think logically.
In this selection process, one wants to know that the candidate holds their beliefs with passion. Bush has gauged whether she holds these beliefs firmly. We are what we love, not what we know. Too many in Washington lose their conservatism because they want to be liked by the MSM. I think Bush chose her because he trusts that her beliefs are wedded with passion and will not change.
"we need to have this fight, let's try and win it and show the Dems for what they are. instead, we ducked it, and we have to take our chances on a "gut feel", "trust us" approach for this opening on the court."
I wanted the fight too...there is nothing more fun than watching liberals in a frenzy....no frenzy with Miers...dang.....maybe on the first major decision? One can only hope.
The Abortionists have the long knives comming out.
According to you, Patton was a coward because he focused on outmaneuvering the enemy, rather than plowing right through them.
Not to push the math and logic thing too much but...
"logic:
1. (philosophy, mathematics) A branch of philosophy and mathematics that deals with the formal principles, methods and criteria of validity of inference, reasoning and knowledge. Logic is concerned with what is true and how we can know whether something is true. This involves the formalisation of logical arguments and proofs in terms of symbols representing propositions and logical connectives. The meanings of these logical connectives are expressed by a set of rules which are assumed to be self-evident."
Maybe she can use logical connectives to fit in with 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.'
Definition from-
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=logic
Because writing up a contract that will work for a client in a particular situation, and writing an opinion that may shape the law for decades are two very different things. Americans love practical knowledge, and people that can "get things done". It's one of the things that contributes to our success. But it's not the right approach in every situation---and it really isn't in this one. As a matter of fact, "eminating from the penumbras" is a phrase lots of scholars make fun of--and it's the kind of half-baked thing you have to resort to when constitutional theory isn't your strong point.
Nonetheless, she apparently has the support and admiration of Dinghy Harry Reid.
"Between this and the Ok bombing, I think there is a big segment of FR that wants things to go badly. It is seriously depressing me and making me feel that anyone who thinks the sky isn't about to fall shouldn't be here. I think FR is going to make me an angry, pessimistic, bitter crone like some here if I stick around."
No, I don't think that's the case at all. I think many of us want to take it to the Dems - get somebody like Priscilla Owens or Janice Rogers Brown that will make them filibuster so we can invoke the Constitutional Option and get this crap out of the way for once and for all.
But, as Rush so rightly pointed out, if you were Bush, would you want to go into battle with Senate Republicans at your side??? those capitulating, cowardly, spineless worms???
Just everything available, publicly. I have no special access to information about her, otherwise. No top secret secrets, ha.
Yes, but can she cook?
Thanks for sharing that. I agree with you but lacking the "I'm an attorney" qualification, my insights that parallel yours as you've just written there, are easily overlooked. The power of the personality is often overlooked as to "interpreting the Constitution" by people who otherwise conceal behind/with a fixed professional identity, as if that rendered their own pscyhology moot (it does not).
Meaning, all opinion, however well reasoned, is still the product of human perceptions. It's how those perceptions are formulated and influenced that is key.
You don't get it do you ?
Schumer will turn on her before this is over because right now they are in stun mode.
Once they dig up the facts on her they will go after her pretty hard
"Ha! All these Donner Party trolls are doing is picking the toe cheese out of each others feet. Bark Bark Bark go the moonbats."
Now that was funny!
LOL
That is exactly what is going on.
Reid and Shoomie will regret their statements, but they'll tap dance around them. There is no way that Hitlery does anything other than oppose Miers. That's a good enough endorsement for me.
Also, it is good to hear that chrissie matt asked if Bush had done the gotcha to the liberals yet again.
Miers == the anti-Ginsberg
The President knows Miers far better than you do, or than any body in the Old Media does, or than the "purists" opposing her do.
He has not screwed you by nominating Miers. He has done what you, and I, have hoped for regarding the USSC.
This woman is very Pro-Constitution - an originalist, not a expansionist.
GWHB did not know Souter at all.
GWB has known Miers and worked with her and depended on her counsel for many years.
There is a big difference here - completely opposite the situation that existed with the Souter appointment.
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