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Miers may be a stealth nominee for those Bork jockies who want to find that one flaw that will torpedoe President Bush's choice. I am sure our opponents in this great culture war have gone over the obvious nominees with a fine tooth comb. With Miers choice, President Bush has thrown a wrench into the strategy of the DemonRATs (I will only call Zell Miller a Democrat). By the time they have started to find something, the hearings will have been over.

This niminee was one of strategy. The Republicans have 51 Senators. Many of them cannot be trusted to hold firm to a down to the line fight which would have occured with any of the known contenders. President Bush was not going to put a nominee in that kind of jeapardy--not when the DemonRATs had vowed to put this next nominee through the grinder as payback for the defeat they suffered with the Roberts victory. With this tactic working, the President decided that it is one he can win with. Now those Republicans in the Senate will not have to face any serious embarassment from the DemonRATs who are known to Bork nominees on such things as pubic hair on Coke cans. Now the DemonRATs risk criticism

I am sure our opponents in this great culture war have gone over the obvious nominees with a fine tooth comb

Wow, you are so right; I hadn't even thought of it, but by this time after naming Roberts, the damning TV ads had already been on the air for 24 hours!

This niminee was one of strategy. The Republicans have 51 Senators. Many of them cannot be trusted to hold firm to a down to the line fight which would have occured with any of the known contenders. President Bush was not going to put a nominee in that kind of jeapardy--not when the DemonRATs had vowed to put this next nominee through the grinder as payback for the defeat they suffered with the Roberts victory. With this tactic working, the President decided that it is one he can win with. Now those Republicans in the Senate will not have to face any serious embarassment from the DemonRATs who are known to Bork nominees on such things as pubic hair on Coke cans. Now the DemonRATs risk criticism

Exactly. This is called RealPolitik 2005, baby!

All these people on this thread who believe in perfection and a theoretically just political world have no clue as to the realities and tradeoffs this president is facing.

The WOT, the economy, RINOs in the senate, John McLaime, the gang of 14 and now this OU human bomber.

These brilliant political theoreticians want a fight, a filibuster and a defeat all in the name of selecting their perfect candidate for the Supremes. Brilliant.

I am so happy that these brilliant political theoreticians were not running on the top of the ticket last year.

Republicans have 55 Senators. If the President had made a good choice like Luttig, McConnell, Karen Williams, etc then he would have no problem getting them confirmed. They are all solid legal minds who would run rings around democrats on the Judiciary Committee like Roberts did. Nominees like that would be picking up redstate democrat support.