Replies

how can you call yourself a conservative and claim to support the president in light of what i've cited as his non-conservative policies... i have only spoken for myself and have always done so... i only refered to "people" in terms of those that my have thought about becoming a conservative and in doing some due diligence in terms of the presidents policies have decided that he is not a conservative through his actions and therefore have decided that conservativism isn't for them afterall...

I agree that not everything President Bush has done falls in line with conservative thinking. I have said myself many times on FR that he tends to spend OUR money like it belongs to him.

But having said that you cannot find ANY President, including Ronald Reagan, who towed the conservative line in every single thing. There was a great deal of criticism of President Reagan from the right when he strong armed the Israeli government into sparing the entire PLO when Israel had almost all of them surrounded on the docks of Beirut Lebanon. Indeed there were those who said that President Reagan had abandoned Israel when victory was so near.

There seems to be a lot of criticism of GWB's nomination of Harriet Miers because she is a "stealth" candidate. I trust this President. If he said he is going to put people on the court in the mold of Scalia and Thomas then I believe that is what he will do. I believe Harriet Miers meets that description.

What bothers me is that the question in the minds of both liberals and conservatives should be: "How will she vote?".
There are many conservatives, and not too few prominent ones, who seem to think that how "Justice Miers" would vote is secondary to the need to have a slug fest with the judiciary committee.

Let me ask you this because I do appreciate your reasoned conservatism: If after a year or two (assuming HM's being approved) she does indeed vote consistently with Thomas/Scalia will you issue such a very long thread pointing out how very wrong you were? Or does it not matter how she votes because the opportunity for a weeks worth of headlines about harsh words amongst the committee will be forever lost?