Supreme Court nominee was a supremely bad choice

Mobile Register ^ | 10/4/2005 | Quin Hillyer

[auboy]

[Graybeard58]

I'm just heart broken that the Pres didn't let the Mobile Register and other media pick the nominee.

[sinkspur]

Nothing but ad hominems against Meirs. No evidence that she would not be at least as good as Clarence Thomas, who also came onto the court with lowered expectations.

[dighton]

George W. Bush has just rung the death knell for his presidency.

Added keyword drama queens.

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah, we should listen to the knee jerk Bush haters on some wacko 5th rate Dinasour Media Editorial board. Maybe these clowns can explain why the Conservative Legal Group The Federalist Society gave Meirs their endorsement? I guess the Bush Haters think we should ignore what our freinds are saying and take the advice of our political enemies.

Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, said Miss Miers "has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career. She led a campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortions."

10-04-05 The Washington Times

[Altamira]

Yeah, maybe this "unqualified" nominee will inject a bit of common sense into the Court.

If she can read and analyze the law, then she's certainly qualified to be a Supreme Court justice. It's the "smarty pants" ones that you have to watch out for, those that engage in the "creative" lawyering that is destroying this country. You know, the kind that make up rights that don't exist, and ignore the ones that are there in black and white.

[Parmenio]

One of the most effective campaign lines Reagan had during the l980 was contrasting the lackluster Carter team to the people he had on board. He said that when he was elected President, he would appoint people for whom Government service was a step DOWN rather than a step up. At least in the case of Harriet Miers and Michael Brown, Bush seems to have followed the Carter model, rather than Reagan's.

[tumblindice]

Just airing things out a little bit here at FR . . . crank your speakers

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[MNJohnnie]

Nothing but ad hominems against Meirs. No evidence that she would not be at least as good as Clarence Thomas, who also came onto the court with lowered expectations.

Earlier today someone re-posted this article from 1991 that whined about how Thomas was going to be more Souter then Bork. Funny how the "Movement Conservatives" sing the same song every time. Guess they think we all will just forget how they whined about Roberts

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

a woman who the president's own former speechwriter describes as "a taut, nervous, anxious personality."

I think that was Frum. Thanks, David.

Is anyone else sick of Frum? Sure, he's a smart guy but it seems like his whole agenda involves nothing but advancing the interests of No. 1.

I'm sure he could find a lot of interesting adjectives to say about Scalia's personality, but I'm not sure what they would have to do with his constitutional theories.

[Patti_ORiley]

The fact is that Ms. Miers is a risky choice when there were so many other known quantities to choose from. Bush says he knows her heart and I'm sure he believes it, but the reality is that Miers has never presided over a court and has not had to render a decision affecting people's lives. Many people can talk the talk of conservatism, but how can anyone know how Miers will action when it comes time for action? It is just a shame, because as I stated earlier, there were many know quantities Bush could have picked.

[Vigilanteman]

And to be sure, her resumé isn't awful.

Compared to Souter, it's downright brilliant. She's definitely better than Ginsberg, Beyer, O'Connor, Stevens and Souter. She may be an equal to Kennedy. She's no match for Roberts, Thomas or Scalia.

The truth is that she's not such an awful pick, but the sad part is the number of far more qualified candidates who were passed over.

[Parmenio]

I didn't whine about Roberts. There is one question I haven't heard answered though. Why is Harry Reid so happy about the Miers nomination?

[plain talk]

She's either a brilliant stealth candidate or a loser. We'll find out eventually. Ya'll have a nice day now.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Writes former speechwriter David Frum: "In the White House that hero-worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met."

Yeah, right.

This is an approved editorial from the Mobile newspaper?? This kind of language??

Well, I guess it is Mobile.

[M203M4]

Possible scenario:

It is the dem's job (if they play their part) to mark her as unqualified, and have some of the repubs play along. She is not confirmed. The focus is now on qualifications.

The next nominee will have unquestionable qualifications (like Roberts, Ann's hysteria notwithstanding), and will be someone closer to Scalia in all the good ways (much closer...).

Or she is the intended nominee and we will all be wowed at her hearings (and confident in her non-activism).

Or Bush didn't deliver and, for once, it will be fair to say, "Bush fault!!" That the latter is possible makes me very sad. :(

[MNJohnnie]

Wonder why then the Conservative Legal group The Federalist Society does NOT agree with your characterization of Meirs? Guess we should just ignore our proven friends and take advice from the knee jerk Bush haters in the Moveon.org "conservatives" group instead.

[safisoft]

A crucial decision made by an already-reeling president that energizes the opposition while demoralizing or angering usual allies can be nothing other than an unmitigated disaster

Even if (a big if) Miers 10 years from now (VP Cheney tells us to give her that leeway) turns out to be in the mold of Scalia or Thomas... It will be too late. The Republicans will only look back with fondness of the days when they held the White House and both Houses of Congress. They will see this as the jump the shark moment and ask themselves, "Why didn't the President just pick someone that wouldn't tick off BOTH the left and the right at the SAME TIME?"

Appeasing your enemies will only get you more enemies.

[kevao]

Why is Harry Reid so happy about the Miers nomination?

Maybe because she's a born-again Christian? Well, maybe not.