Posted on 10/05/2005 3:01:45 PM PDT by Mike10542
Okay, lets say for a moment that Miers winds up voting with Scalia and Thomas. Let's also say that she is qualified. Let's also forget about the fact that cronyism played a part here. She could wind up being a great justice. The one thing I still cannot get around is why Bush and his people would be willing to risk this all on someone who is already 60 years old!!! Does anyone else on here, besides all the other reasons against her, see a problem with her age (then again if she winds up being a bad justice, we'll be lucky she wasn't 45-50 when Bush put her on)?
I am wondering if anyone concerned about "her" age would believe that "his" age at 60 would be a matter of concern. Men tend to think any woman over the age of 21 is ready for the grave yard, in my experience.
As I am nearly the same age as Miss Meier, I am not at all concerned about her toppling into the graveyard any time soon -- particularly since she has never been married and has no children. Spinsterhood is powerful.
RBG is in very ill health. She will be off the court within the next six months.
Ginsburg has been nothing but misery and my worst nightmare. A former attorney for the ACLU, she is in effect a Marxist.
Let's hope she "retires" before W is out so he can replace her. ANYONE appointed by any Republican President would be an incredible improvement over her.
At 60 years old, Harriet Miers, won't be long at the court, so if she turns out to be another Ginsberg, hopefully, the damage is not as severe.
I think that GWBush should nominate Ann Coulter to the bench.
Do you have a source for that?
Does that mean you have to post Ann's picture now?
Thanks for the info - I hope she lives to 100!
"she assured the President that she would live until she was 90. All we have to do is trust him and all will be well!"
LOL.
The fact is that 60 is old. It is a strike against her. If Bush were really trying to use his nomination wisely, he would pick the youngest "Scalia or Thomas" he could find.
Bush did not pick the youngest "Scalia or Thomas" he could find.
Bush did not use his pick wisely.
No one even knows if Bush picked a "Scalia or Thomas" like he promised.
Even if he did, she is still a crony and he should have picked someone else.
This pick is just lame. A total waste.
"she assured the President that she would live until she was 90. All we have to do is trust him and all will be well!"
LOL.
The fact is that 60 is old. It is a strike against her. If Bush were really trying to use his nomination wisely, he would pick the youngest "Scalia or Thomas" he could find.
Bush did not pick the youngest "Scalia or Thomas" he could find.
Bush did not use his pick wisely.
No one even knows if Bush picked a "Scalia or Thomas" like he promised.
Even if he did, she is still a crony and he should have picked someone else.
This pick is just lame. A total waste.
This was my first reaction ... she might be the best thing to come along since sliced bread, but so might be a 45 or 50 year old. Yes ... a missed opportunity. BUT, we will learn much more in the confirmation hearings. I'll reserve judgment until then.
This guy is 82 years old and still plugging perps, dead too.
http://www.kvvutv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3935198
In any case, I have it on very good authority (Harriet Mier's gardener's second cousin's veterinarian, that she has always planned to live to at least 90 and that, instead of watching Desparate Housewives, Harriet bones up on originalism. And she's even heard of Justice Scalia!!!!
Send me a pony express map.
Women live longer. And SC justices tend to live a loing time, anyway.
Social Security? What is that? You mean all that dough we've been throwing away for thirty years? My lifestyle dictates ten times that amount. SS is my beer account.
A lot of folks had trouble with Reagan's age too. Not a valid arguement. IMHO
I'm 41 and 60 doesn't look that old these days.
Whether Harriet Miers is conservative enough is a fair question (although I'm guessing that working as counsel for Dubya, both in Austin and Washington, and being a Molly Ivins clone would be kind of difficult to reconcile). I get that concern. But to think that she got to the places she got in her career without being a very bright and very capable lawyer is naive. The idea that serving a year or so as a judge made Clarence Thomas a seasoned, highly qualified candidate, and not having done it makes her a joke, is silly. And the age thing is just stupid.
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