Posted on 10/05/2005 9:42:57 PM PDT by quidnunc
Republican activists yesterday lashed out at President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, excoriating White House emissaries at two "off-the-record" gatherings of Washington conservatives.
"I can't stomach another 'trust me' from a Republican" in the Oval Office, Free Congress Foundation President Paul M. Weyrich told Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman at Mr. Weyrich's regular Wednesday conservative coalition luncheon.
Mr. Mehlman made an extensive pitch on behalf of Miss Miers at the Weyrich weekly luncheon, which brings together conservative activists and lawmakers.
Former Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie ran into a similar storm of criticism at the weekly morning meeting of about 200 conservative interest-group leaders and activists hosted by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
"We've been on the wrong side of the question mark with nominees like John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Sandra Day O'Connor, and asking us to take another question mark in the person of Harriet Miers is asking us to take a lot," Connie Mackey, vice president of the Family Research Council, told Mr. Gillespie.
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"Oh, you mean about Miers? What if YOU are wrong?"
Of course I was teasing about the end of the world, but the best you can offer is a 50/50 proposition that Miers is the right candidate, though Bush has let us down before. There were plenty of sure picks to choose from, and GW flinched.
Paul Weyrich = barking moonbat?
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
Coyote dude, or dudette, as the case may be, I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree. My proposition isn't a 50/50 deal. I'm just saying I am not ready to "wet the bed" over President Bush's pick of Miers for the court, as so many here are. Maybe the booers and hissers and oh-my-god-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it folks are right. Maybe the ones who prefer to sit back, take a deep breath and see what kind of person she turns out to be are right. Maybe none of us are right, and we'll all end up floating out in the atmosphere forever because of a president's pick of a terrible, Souter-like, justice. Stay tuned, we'll find out either way, soon.
I'm choosing to trust President Bush on this one. He knows Miers, and knows her well.
Quidnunc writes lots of ridiculous things.
Exactly.
Now (was) is the time to change that politically correct attitude in which solid conservative selections are said to be "out of the mainstream" and not to be considered.
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