[tennmountainman]

It's interesting reading and posting thoughts on this great site. For a lot of posters it's always the "next" pick, or wait untill the "next" election" or lets wait and see.
However, Bush made a promise to we conservatives that he would pick judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. If you think he fulfilled his promise by picking Miers, nothing those of us who differ cannot say anything to change your mind.
In addition, to say that a REPUBLICAN controlled Senate, House and Presidency could not get a time tested conservative judge through the nomination process is hogwash.

[July 4th]

I agree with you. As a conservative attorney who is quite involved in litigating constitutional issues, I'm sick about this pick.

[Sir_Ed]

It strikes me that the people who say we should shut up and let President Bush appoint her without saying anything, without pondering it, analyzing it or discussing it...who say that we should just obsequiously grin and say "Wow! What a good Supreme Court Justice SHE will make!"just because he is President Bush, are cowardly.

They seem to be afraid to stand up for their beliefs, afraid to stand up for Conservatism, and afraid that the battle for the hearts and minds of America is so hopeless that we shouldn't even attempt it.

This strikes me as so sad...like a bunch of people at a party, and abortion is brought up, and no one has the courage to say "I believe that abortion is murder."

If we continue to be so timid, so willing to surrender before the battle is even joined, then what does that teach future generations, what does that teach the uninformed...that Conservatism is something to be afraid of? Something to shrink from espousing, something to hide and conceal from the general population lest we be thought of as irrational lunatics?

I hope and pray that we Conservatives muster the strength to stop this appointment, and begin fighting, overtly, lucidly and explicitly, for Conservative beliefs, and Constitutional Jurists like Scalito, Janice Rogers Brown, Michael McConell or Michael Luttig.

Some Freepers have suggested that it is foolishness to fight for Pro-Life beliefs, that it is "strategery" to let an unkown person in, on the strength of "wink-wink, nudge-nudge" entreaties from Dr. Dobson and Jay Sekulow, but what better time do Conservatives have for initiating a nationwide dialogue on Pro-Life, Conservatism and the true meaning of the Constitution, than now?

Ed