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Rush Limbaugh: Miers Pick 'Disappointing'
NewsMax.com ^ | Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 1:44 p.m. EDT | Editor

Posted on 10/04/2005 8:05:40 AM PDT by Constitution Restoration Act

Rush Limbaugh is none too happy about President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, saying it’s a selection "made from weakness.”

"There was an opportunity here to show strength and confidence, and I don’t think this is it,” Rush told listeners of his show, America’s most widely heard talk radio program.

"It seems to me from the outset that this is a pick that was made from weakness.

"There are plenty of known quantities out there who would be superb for the Court. This is a nominee that we don’t know anything about. It makes her less of a target, but also doesn’t show a position of strength.

"I have a tough time believing that if the White House didn’t feel embattled over all of this stuff with Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq and these poll numbers, the choice would have been somebody different, somebody that could immediately be tagged as an originalist, somebody who was in the same mold of Scalia and Thomas, who the president once told us were his ideals for the Supreme Court.

"The Democrats are saying some favorable things about Harriet Miers right now, led by dingy Harry (Reid), the Senate leader. He likes her very much. Almost like he’d like to marry her, he likes her so much.

"And when you start hearing the President’s opponents start talking about this in the way they’re talking about it, you have to have a red flag go up.

"But the main reason I don’t like this pick has nothing to do with Harriet Miers, because I don’t know her. I think the pick makes President Bush look weak. I think the pick is designed to avoid more controversy, to appease.”

Rush said Miers’ nomination "disappoints” him because he feels Bush might be losing a historic opportunity to take the Court in a definitely conservative direction.

"As I’ve said, the Court is the last refuge for the left. It is where they hope to institutionalize their beliefs and get their beliefs out of the arena of debate.

"This woman could end up being fabulous,” Rush acknowledged, but asked: "Why do we have to take the risk? Why do we have to roll the dice?”

 


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: harrietmiers; rush; scotus; talkradio
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To: ErnBatavia

I agree two. Ginsberg and Stevens


21 posted on 10/04/2005 8:30:46 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: Constitution Restoration Act
I think the pick makes President Bush look weak

I agree with Rush.

22 posted on 10/04/2005 8:32:39 AM PDT by teawithmisswilliams (Question Diversity)
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To: linkinpunk

I think that W has learned from his mistakes, such as Charles Pickering. You won't get a self-proclaimed conservative past the likes of Specter, Chaffee, and Collins. You need to give the RINO's, as well as some democrats cover in voting for judicial nominations. As Sun Tzu says, if you can win the war without a battle, that is the best. I like the fact that she is an evangelical Christian with a long history with W. That's good enough for me at this point.


23 posted on 10/04/2005 8:34:03 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: peyton randolph
"...that prediction is really going out on a limb."

Good one! Of course you're right.

24 posted on 10/04/2005 8:35:41 AM PDT by Russ
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To: linkinpunk

"Plus, if there was a Clarence Thomas / Robert Bork kind of fight, his ratings would go through the roof."

"If there is not a big battle, then his ratings stay at a traditional off-election year level."

Apparently even the top conservative talk shows have been hit w/less audiences after the election. The left wing shows have been hit even harder.


25 posted on 10/04/2005 8:36:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: peyton randolph

Also...O'Connor was pretty good for a long time. It was only when it got to Casey did she start "growing". After that, she was pretty mixed and on the big cases she was a flop.


26 posted on 10/04/2005 8:36:52 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Russ

Why do we keep getting nominees that may or may not become "pleasant suprises"? We voted President Bush in because he promised us judicial nominees in the mold of a Thomas or Scalia. There were plenty of qualified people who fit the bill and were not "stealth" nominees. Why is our President so prone to being cowed by the dems and rinos in the senate?


27 posted on 10/04/2005 8:38:10 AM PDT by yooling (I don't have anything nice to say...)
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To: jimmygrace
You won't get a self-proclaimed conservative past the likes of Specter, Chaffee, and Collins. You need to give the RINO's, as well as some democrats cover in voting for judicial nominations.

I respectfully disagree. The American public wants a justice who believes "homosexual marriage" should not be imposed by judges, for example. If Bush took his case to the public, a majority would back him, and he would have the 51 senate votes he needs. He's shown he's not willing to make the case to the public, and that makes him look "weak," as Rush says.

28 posted on 10/04/2005 8:39:08 AM PDT by teawithmisswilliams (Question Diversity)
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To: Frank T

That's what I mean - name calling is so tiring.


29 posted on 10/04/2005 8:40:36 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newbie, PhD. Tenure allows you to stay put - NOT evict others.)
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To: Russ

I agree with you, Rush MAY be wrong on this one. To his credit, and a fact everyone seems to miss, Rush stated he did not know this person and knew very little about her. I wouldn't want to be in a poker game with George Bush. This may be an end run around a terrible Senate blast with the result being a true constructionist nominee gaining a seat on the Supreme Court.


30 posted on 10/04/2005 8:40:41 AM PDT by cousair
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To: evets
If it weren't for Rush, the success that conservatism and being a Republican have enjoyed recently would not of been possible. He was the lone voice in the wilderness regarding conservatism in the 1980's using a media platform like talk radio . He started talk radio from a conservative point of view and Murdouch was right in understanding what Rush tapped into over the radio waves. Conservatism went main stream via Fox News and it's ratings successes.

Rush doesn't want to pick the next justice. He and millions of others would like the President to fulfill his platform promises which included sending a strict constructionist to the bench with a proven history of his or her conservatism. Somehow this damn stupid Party always manages to grab defeat from the jaws of victory. Why in the Hell did we work so hard to elect a majority of 55 Rep. senators, if this is the kind of pick we get. Hell, Harry Reid loves her for God's sake.
31 posted on 10/04/2005 8:40:58 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: sodpoodle

tiring


32 posted on 10/04/2005 8:41:14 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newbie, PhD. Tenure allows you to stay put - NOT evict others.)
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To: yooling

Was Souter considered a "stealth" nominee?


33 posted on 10/04/2005 8:41:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: sodpoodle

tiresome


34 posted on 10/04/2005 8:41:46 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newbie, PhD. Tenure allows you to stay put - NOT evict others.)
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To: teawithmisswilliams

Rush will support her starting today, listen and learn..


35 posted on 10/04/2005 8:42:12 AM PDT by navysealdad
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To: peyton randolph
"I also believe Bush will have the opportunity to select one more Justice before his term is over."

Yep. Maybe two. I figure B.J Clinton for the next one and one of the women from the ninth circuit. That should be just the two he needs to prevent a fight with the Democrats.
36 posted on 10/04/2005 8:42:29 AM PDT by Bar-Face (The Embassy helicopter is warming up.)
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To: jimmygrace

"I think that W has learned from his mistakes, such as Charles Pickering. You won't get a self-proclaimed conservative past the likes of Specter, Chaffee, and Collins."

Listen RINO, it was probably people like you who convinced some PA conservatives to vote for Arlen Specter last year. Bush pledged his support in the primaries, and also in the election.

IF god-damned RINOs like you didn't help to push Specter over a principled conservative like Toomey, then obviously Bush wouldn't need to worry about Specter's support. It is these watered down compromises that will destroy the base.

Conservatives are not in love with big spending, and legislating from the bench. If Bush can't get the important things right, there will be a major fallout. For *MANY* people - ie. enough people to determine whether Republicans win or lose elections - judicial nomination is the *ONLY* reason they have stuck with the Party.

Bush is the unholy love child of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. God damned RINO tory.


37 posted on 10/04/2005 8:43:44 AM PDT by Frank T
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To: conservativecorner

God bless Rush Limbaugh!


38 posted on 10/04/2005 8:43:47 AM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: cynicom
"Trust me"...Those words have led many a person down the wrong path by trusting someone else's judgment.

All this "Trust me, she'll turn out to be a good pick" is reminiscent of a line I heard a lot in 2000:

"Trust me, GWB is a conservative."

39 posted on 10/04/2005 8:45:25 AM PDT by kevao
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To: Russ

" also believe Bush will have the opportunity to select one more Justice before his term is over"

That's the inside-the-beltway buzz.


40 posted on 10/04/2005 8:45:38 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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