Me too. I think I'd fall into the crowd that thinks this was a missed opportunity and the President shouldn't be ashamed to put a KNOWN conservative, and/or a constitutional originalist up for nomination.
He shouldn't be bashful and try to "sneak" someone unknown onto the SCOTUS.
And I'm definitely with the crowd that by doing this only pushes people to keep their mouth shut about opinions they hold so nothing can be used against them in the future.
Do you think it is Bush's fault that people are forced to keep their mouths shut, or suffer the consequences later???
I keep seeing this written, but I don't see how we can blame President Bush....how about the Congress, especially the Senate...AND the American people...
This whole PC crapola is taking away so much from public discussion that could be useful....but take Bill Bennett's problem...some are calling for his firing as a talk show host...jeez, louise...
YET, those same people, when something like Katrina happens, want "A national dialogue on race in America"...well, how can we have a dialogue, when NO ONE take the time to listen/read the whole of someone's thoughts before going for their throats?????
IF judicial nominees feel hard pressed to speak their minds, I beleive it is the fault of congress's past that have made ABORTION the be all/end all of a person's "right" to be a judge...based on that one opinion...
Actually, go back to the Supreme Court that made that a LAW based on a "right" that was not spelled out in the Constitution....
NOW, re: Miers, I heard/read that when she was President of the ABA, she was against the ABA taking a stand about pro-life as a body...I got the impression that she thought that state, or local ABA groups could...but not national...
THAT sounds like a state's rights attitude, which unless I am wrong, sounds like a good first step in getting the Roe v. Wade ruling overturned.