[quidnunc]

As I said previously, Ann has jumped the shark.

She has gone from an impassioned conservative advocate to a shrieking harpy.

[A CA Guy]

The logic that makes sense in me regarding this matter is that after 14 years, I think Bush knows this person better than almost any other he could send up to the bench. If this is his choice to be sure there is a conservative and not a stealth liberal going up by accident, then good for him.

I trust this pick based on what the President must know after 14 years regarding this.

I think Ann is losing topic material in Bush sending Miers up, gone is perhaps a Bork type battle which Ann and some here must have wanted.

I think all that would have done was increase fund raising for Democrats to defeat Republicans.

I think we will be OK here.

[finnman69]

American Thinker is right, Ann Coulter responded to a very thoughtful defense of Miers in a superficial stylistic way, not with substance.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

You are a Bush fan club booster.

Ann Coulter is brilliant, insightful and hits the target with a bull's-eye nearly every single time.

What is truly pathetic is witnessing so-called conservatives blindly waive the pom-poms over every single Bush/Republican move.

Patriots are thankful for OBJECTIVE and rational conservative national commentators like Ann Coulter, who place the nation's future and the nation's current direction far above childish "party cheerleading".

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Seems to me it is the President who needs to be reminded what a conservative is. And also, that he campaigned saying that he would appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. If he had said he was going to appoint his buddies instead of actual qualified candidates of whom there are many, he might not have gotten the slim majority that the political genius Karl Rove managed to eke out for him.

[smoothsailing]

Yeah, Ole Chicken Legs Coulter has been overly snarky lately. But I'm keeping her books anyway, they still have a place on my conservative bookshelf.

[RTINSC]

Is this the best that she can do to defend her point of view? She has morphed into an oddball entertainment figure rather than a serious polical commentator..

[isthisnickcool]

Coulter does have a point. I'm not going to take a Porsche Carrera GT down to the local kid at the oil change place and let him work on it. Nor would I allow a general practitioner to do brain surgery on me.

I want the best of the best. I'm not sure that's what I'm getting with this latest pick. It will be interesting to see how she does in the Senate hearings.

[america-rules]

So now trailer trash is qualified to lecture the rest of us on a SCOTUS nominee ?

[vetvetdoug]

Ann may be right about Miers but her attack on her educational background riles me greatly and a snobbery unbecoming of her. Attacking Miers law background because she didn't come from an upper crust law school smacks of arrogance and prejudice. Ann needs to use better arguments than educational background with respect to schools or she will completely make her statements irrelevant.

[Poser]

I'm torn between cutting Ann Coulter (a hot conservative babe) and GW Bush (an admirable President) some slack. I think I'll cut them both some slack and see where this nomination goes.

There is no question that GWB believes he has nominated a high quality conservative and that Ann believes he made a mistake.

I hope Ann is wrong and that she keeps thinking.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

If you compare Lifson and Coulter in this exchange, Lifson sounds like the pompous jerk ("I have the Ivy League sheepskins on my wall") and Coulter sounds like the down to Earth realist ("analyzing constitutional and federal law at the level of the SC is a job for a complex mind").

(BTW, I agree with Lifson about the that/which point, and think Coulter overstepped her argument here).

Coulter is a brilliant mind, and conservatives should be thankful to have her. Yes, she is a polemicist, and has the edge which (that?) goes with the job.

Her fundamental point is that W just does not get to do what he wants without explaining himself, or least if he does so, he cannot expect intelligent people to refrain from calling him on it.

It is W who is treating conservatives as if they were idiots. Liberals and leftists are so far out there, it almost is absurd to bother with them. But W purports to be a conservative, and that means he is held to a higher standard, a standard of integrity and rationality.

Politics is NOT, fundamentally, a matter of personality, according to the conservative pov. (Yet the conservatives who are being treated like idiots, cling to the personality of W.) That is why we can criticize our guys, and leftists can never criticize theirs. Havent you ever noticed that distinction, and wondered why it was a fact?

[Bush gal in LA]

Oooh. I'm getting a headache from all this. I must confess to the fact of going back and forth every day on the presidents choice. I just heard Ken Star singing Miss Miers praises. He thinks she's absolutely divine! He's a brilliant lawyer and says he knows her very well. Ann my idol hates her!...........For someone who admits to not knowing very much about the inner workings of the Supreme Court.....HELP!!... Is it the fact that she isn't intellectual enough?! Not up to the task. Or is whats bothering conservatives and making them so angry, the fact that theyv'e been burned so many times in the past and don't really know how this woman will vote? Or is it both?!.........Hubby just made me laugh. He said it's like if you dated someone for 10 years, sent her flowers and candy, wined and dined her with expensive dinners......then after all that she turns around and marrys somebody else.Like the guy that mowes the lawn! You feel angry and betrayed. And vow never to do that again.

[Virginia Queen]

"Ann has just provided support for the thesis that at least one conservative pundit trashing Miers is nothing but a pompous elitist."

I believe your criticism of Ann Coulter is far too kind. She has gone from being someone I enjoyed to someone who is arrogant, mean, elitist, and very in love with herself (short-sighted, obviously, as she does not see her flaws). She would make a perfect mate for Bill Maher. (Is she on drugs?)

[Palladin]

Who has Ann been dating lately? Maybe she is sleeping with the enemy.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If Newton had been a bad grammarian, would the apple have fallen up?

[mountainfolk]

Watching Ann Coulter on O'Rielly tonite, I saw her as the future replacement for Maureen Dowd. Bitter and vindictive and lashing out at good people who won't do things her way. Listening to all of these pundits throwing their huge pity party because one of their selection for SC Justice was not chosen, makes me glad Pres Bush struck out on his own. I don't trust any of them to have good judgment. They have all spent too much time in DC and should get out and see what it is like to make a living where something other than running their mouths is required.

[loveliberty2]

On Brian Allen's page can be found several important quotations, including the following words from Thomas Jefferson:

"When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground."--Thomas Jefferson

Pundits like Coulter, egocentric as they are, surely must know that their "positions will not command a view of the whole ground," and are of little real value when they criticize the President and his nominee.

A reporter today mentioned some of Miers comments about herself, one of which included a statement that she preferred "to think before I speak." Ann Coulter might learn a lot from that lady!

[altura]

She needs food. She needs it now.

[woofie]

Notoriety is the mother's milk of stupidity

[danmar]

Ann Coulter is one of many conservative pundits criticizing the SCOTUS nomination of Harriet Miers.

I like Ms.Coulter on many issues but her latest attempt to dismiss Ms.Miers's qualifications to the Sup Judgeship is a bit over the top IMHO.

In today's Wall Street Journal, John Cornyn wrote an excellent letter to the editorial, cautioning against a rush to judgment against Ms.Miers's qualifications for the Supreme Court position.

As he said let's meet the Lady and see for oneself about her competence to be a Supreme Court Justice.

Me thinks it is only fair to give her the benefit of the doubt whether she is qualified for the position or not.