Mark Steyn: Has Bush blown it?

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/08/05 | Mark Steyn

[xsmommy]

'I like that black woman'

hey, me too!

[Nonstatist]

she seems less likely than any detached effete legal scholar to be prone to the remorseless drift to the Left that happens to Republican Supreme Court nominees.

Thats my hope, too !!!

[B Knotts]

it's a remarkable achievement to get damned day in day out as the new Hitler when 90 per cent of the time you're Tony Blair with a ranch.

LOL...another classic Steyn-ism.

[NCSteve]

...but it's far too early to tell, Mr. Steyn.

That would probably be what Steyn meant when he said, "True, that’s little more than a hunch on my part...We’ll see."

Mark has placed himself on the fence, but leaning toward approval and giving the benefit of the doubt. I think that's a good place for him to be.

[joesnuffy]

[maryz]

Bush and Rove know there is an abortion case that will be decided before the mid term elections.

I think I read there are two cases involving abortion scheduled to come up soon.

[workerbee]

Of course, this could all be one big Karl Rove head-fake to make conservatives so hopping mad that the Dems scent blood and kill the Miers nomination, after which they’ve shot their bolt and Bush nominates Scalia Mark Two....

Okay okay, I admit it.... this crossed my mind! lol

Well, we can dream, can’t we?

*sigh* Yep. Dream and pray.

[hobbes1]

Considering that we generally consider ourselves brighter than our leftist enemies, you would think the Chicken Little corwd would have caught on to this long ago....

...Not my bag but, that said, every time I or anybody else has predicted he’s blown it, he manages to produce another victory.

[aculeus]

Even the sluggishness of the war on terror seems likely to be partly redeemed by the imminent fall of Baby Assad.

I hope this is more than idle speculation.

[maica]

There will be three whole years of Supreme Court decisions for Americans to see how President Bush's appointees vote.

I refuse to believe that he would send up a person who will not be a conservative vote.

We supporters of President Bush have asked his detractors to trust his judgment in the War on Terror, and yet, in one of the most important responsibilities he has as Chief Executive - nominating Supreme Court Justices - so many of us are quick to vocally not trust his judgment. I see that as a serious flaw in logic.

And we always criticize the Dems for acting on emotion.

[xsmommy]

they are incapable and deride any way that they haven't conceived of and approved.

[headsonpikes]

... it’s a remarkable achievement to get damned day in day out as the new Hitler when 90 per cent of the time you’re Tony Blair with a ranch.

There's a lot of truth in that jest.

[B Knotts]

No fair! You read the article before commenting!

[Rodney King]

Has he blown it? Perhaps, but it's far too early to tell, Mr. Steyn.

We might now know for years.

[Mr. Mojo]

The President is a religio-cultural conservative who believes in big government and big spending and paternalistic federal intervention in areas where few conservatives have ever previously thought it wise.

Iow, not a conservative.

[Sir Gawain]

Bush, it seems ever more obvious, is the Third Wayer Clinton only pretended to be.

Ouch, now the Bushies have to try and trash Steyn for saying that.

[Sam the Sham]

The President is a religio-cultural conservative who believes in big government and big spending and paternalistic federal intervention in areas where few conservatives have ever previously thought it wise.

Since most religio-cultural conservatives are the children and grandchildren of New Deal Democrats and the great grandchildren of Williams Jenning Bryan Populists this is not a contradiction.

Religio-cultural conservatives are not the descendents of Taft-McKinley-Coolidge Old Guard Republicans.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Iow, not a conservative.

No, he is a social conservative - just not a small-goverment libertarian. Which drives us small-government libertarians crazy, sometimes, but there is no question that Bush is an honorable man - something that can't be said of any Democrat that is spoken of as a Presidential contender.

[XJarhead]

as he blown it? Perhaps, but it's far too early to tell, Mr. Steyn.

Isn't that what he said? "Where do I stand? To be honest, I haven’t a clue." Seems pretty fair to me.

I think its probably a good pick on balance, but Steyn's other criticisms of Bush are completely fair, IMHO.

[Texas Federalist]

I refuse to believe that he would send up a person who will not be a conservative vote.

Being a conservative politically is a very different thing than having a constitutional interprative philosophy. For example, a conservative opposed to abortion could have a stronger view of stare decisis and vote to uphold Roe. Bush might know her political leanings. But there is no record of a developed constitutional philosophy on which we can rely.