Posted on 10/05/2005 7:50:11 PM PDT by goldstategop
[I]n terms of somebody else who has obvious conservative credentials, ideological credentials, judicial credentials that have been written and published and so forth, that's what I mean by, "She's stealth," and also what I mean by stealth is that she's an invisible target, and I'm talking for the Democrats.
She is one to the Democrats and to us as well. In the end, the abortion issue will matter to the Left and if they have so much as a hint she's pro-life, they will filibuster her - no ifs buts or ends about it. It would have been better to go into this fight honestly and win on the basis of ideas here. That is what the President should have done in sending forward a well-qualified conservative who has the staunch support of the base from Day One.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Rush limbaugh needs to go back to DU! He's no conservative!
(now let's wait for the personal attacks on Rush to commence...many of them coming from self-proclaimed Christians)
LOL. That's good. I'm going to sit back and watch this thread.
bttt
You don't know what Roberts' judicial philosophy is either. In fact, Roberts testified that he doesn't have one. Let's face it... If you knew what the nominee's judicial philosophy was, then they would not get confirmed. We're dependent on Bush making that call. If you did not trust him to do so, then you should have voted for someone else.
me too...normally I'd participate but I've spent too much time over the last few days scratching with the turkeys. I've got an article to write!
Her religion is being pimped by Bush supporters to placate the base. She's a stealth candidate alright.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
What the Pres should have done and what he did do may be two different things to people but the fact is that he has made a decision and we now have the option to hope for her approval in the Senate or hope for her defeat. I prefer the former.
I don't know how you can say she brings nothing when you don't know her. It's not important for you to know her. It's important for the President to know her since he's making the appointment.
Of course, if you don't trust him, then I can see why you'd not be satisfied with his appointment. At this point, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. It's really kind of pointless to do anything else since the only thing we can do is vent anyway.
John G. Roberts, Jr said the following during his confirmation hearings about is judicial philosophy:
"If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, then the little guy's going to win in the court before me," Roberts told senators. "But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well then the big guy's going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution."
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
What a wonderful thing to do to our President while our sons and daughters are fighting for their lives.
How helpful when we need the Patriot Act reaffirmed.
How helpful when we need the tax cuts made permanent.
How helpful when we need to deal with social security.
Harriet Miers will make the same kind of responses. Roberts reply could not have been anything else. The questions are predictable and so are the responses. Candidates as smart as Roberts and I think Harriet Miers too just aren't going to screw up when being questioned by light weights like Schumer, Kennedy and rino Arlen Specter.
Damn Harriet Miers' oily hide for not revealing her philosophy as Roberts so bravely did! Oh, wait... confirmation hearings haven't started yet, so she couldn't have done so.
It will readily be comprehended, that a man who had himself the sole disposition of offices, would be governed much more by his private inclinations and interests, than when he was bound to submit the propriety of his choice to the discussion and determination of a different and independent body, and that body an entier branch of the legislature. The possibility of rejection would be a strong motive to care in proposing. The danger to his own reputation, and, in the case of an elective magistrate, to his political existence, from betraying a spirit of favoritism, or an unbecoming pursuit of popularity, to the observation of a body whose opinion would have great weight in forming that of the public, could not fail to operate as a barrier to the one and to the other. He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.
Federalist 76
Actually right now we need to deal with the Supreme Court. It may be down low on your list, but it's tops on mine. Pretending the president is strong won't make it so.
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