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In our political wars there are always a variety of motivations brought to each battle. Some people want to fight these wars for aims and purposes they hold deeply in their hearts. Some want to fight because they think it is expected of them. Still others fight to keep their enemies from realizing a victory. Some just don’t like the people on the other side and would fight with them over anything, just for the joy of engaging their enemies. To these people fighting is sometimes more important than winning.

Today we are considering the nomination of Harriet Miers as our next United States Supreme Court Justice. The President’s nomination of Miss Miers has brought forth a gaggle of “conservative thinkers” who seem to almost universally fall into the category of those willing to fight for the sake of fighting. They are people who should be our natural allies at times like this, but alas they find more joy in beating their breasts in displays of political piousness and complaining that this nomination doesn’t allow them to fight. They have immediately started cranking out aid and comfort to our enemies in the liberal camp without regard for the consequences.

They have quickly dusted off their hair shirts ( in some notable cases hair skirts) and sack cloth and begun to proclaim themselves “oh so much more conservative than “ anybody who doesn’t agree with them about the value of this nomination. They can do this because they “know” Harriet Miers. They “know” her better than President Bush does you see. These people have some secret heretofore unrevealed “knowledge” that Harriet Miers, a lady whose name was largly unknown to the rest of us until Monday, is really David Souter is a skirt.

Like the liberals whose real feelings about Blacks were exposed by their quick embrace of the horror stories that came out of New Orleans, these “conservative thinkers” have exposed themselves as believers that President Bush really is a bumbling idiot after all. In doing so they have made Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid proud. Notwithstanding what the “conservative thinker” corps “knows”, and their feckless bleats of “We know nothing about her.”, here are some things we actually do know about Miss Harriet Miers.

· The president has known her for ten years. Since Mr. Bush has yet to get a big decision wrong, this should be enough to bring an honest evaluator of the facts half way there. · The very idea that President Bush would select a pro abortion liberal for this position is the stuff of the crack pipe dreams of the far left. This is real life. That didn’t happen. · Harriet Miers is a twenty five year member of an Evangelical Christian Church. Her Church, Valley View Christian Church is a fundamentalist Christian Church that holds every view genuine conservatives would want in a Supreme Court Justice. Her Pastor, Rev. Ron Key tells us she has taught Sunday School for him. She tithes to her Church. He also makes the point that in his Church their view of marriage is the Biblical approach. A member of her Church has stated that on the Constitution she is an orginalist. She takes the Constitution, as she takes the Bible, literally. · The record of her religious voyage shows that she was brought up a Catholic and that she was “reborn” into the Evangelical Christian faith around 1980. · It is worth noting that what we do know about people who were once Catholics and subsequently became Evangelical Christians is that they do not make suck a switch because they want a Church who offers them looser interpretations of Scripture. These stricter interpretations of the Bible on Sundays almost invariably lead to conservative votes on election Tuesdays. We need only look at the voting habits of Hispanics for support of this accretion. Hispanic Catholics who “move down the street” to an Evangelical Christian Church do not do so because they want to be told gay “marriage” or abortion are just fine so long as you do whatever in privacy. If they hear this talk they keep moving until they find a church that gives them the hell fire and brimstone they crave in their religious life. They don’t vote Democrat. Catholic Hispanics are the Democrat voters. · Miss Miers has attended at least two Pro-Life dinners. That’s probably two more than many of her critics have attended. · As a pioneer woman in a large Dallas Texas law firm in the 1980s Harriet Miers contributed money to Democrats. These contributions included checks to people like Al Gore. Could she have done so willingly? We’ll likely never find out. If you think this is an automatic disqualifier, you probably don’t know that Ronald Reagan was at one time an active and proud Democrat. · There have never been and never will be any Supreme Court Justices who had two votes. The “conservative thinkers” may weep and moan about Michael Luttig not being selected, but he like everyone else beforehim would have just one vote. There is ample evidence that Miss Miers will be that same one vote as Mr. Luttig. · Our “conservative thinkers” are lamenting that she is not a “scholarly legal giant” and the such, but does this not in and of itself imply a wish for someone who will rewrite the Constitution the way WE want it rewritten? Who is selling out our aims here? · True thinking conservatives should want someone who will be a judicial referee. We want someone who can hear cases and say: “ Sorry but I don’t see a “right to destroy your baby in the Constitution” or “ I can’t find any way you can stretch the Commerce Clause to cover this”. We want this and nothing more. · Relying on a rino invalidated Senate to confirm a Michael Luttig is a dangerous and very unnecessary position. There are enough of them who could swing away and scuttle his nomination. This would mean an embarrassment and a big loss of power and prestige for both the President and the Republican Party going into next year’s election cycle, which actually starts around December. · Allowing Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and the media to dictate to us how we should feel about our nominees is not a solid battle tactic. They actually only exist because the rinos and the “conservative thinkers” of the Beltway allow them to. Let me off. · · There is a line from a movie called “White men can’t jump” that is illustrative of these points. The plot revolves around two young men, a Black man and a White man, who are basketball “hustlers” for a living. They go around from court to court pretending to be weak players until the money is on the table. Then they come to life and do just enough to win. They never try to crush their marks. They just try to beat them. · There is the unavoidable fallout between them and the White man delivers a line that goes something like this: “The difference between us is that you’d rather miss a shot then look bad and I’d rather look bad and make the shot.” Is our real point to “hit the shot” and thereby win a seat on the Court for a true conservative or risk missing the shot to look good?