Republican Senators Should Not Rally Around Their President

Human Events ^ | Oct. 6, 2005 | Pat Buchanan

[Howlin]

You've been here long enough to have seen this "show" before.

It's what they do best; and they do it to try and intimidate the rest of us.

[scratcher]

"Well it seems you check homepages but let little things like facts on lotto queen miers like her support for world courts - homosexual adoption "

That was a lie, and I think you know it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Well, Farah and Buchanan can't vote for her.

[CharlesWayneCT]

No, you miss the point. Unless the conservatives CHOOSE to punish the republicans by not voting, the republicans will NOT be hurt in 2006 by this nomination.

The independents are not LESS likely to vote republican because they perceive a moderate judicial nominee, it might make independents MORE likely to vote republican.

That was my point. In a way, it IS the voter that is to "blame" when the politician looses, that is the whole point of the election.

But my point was, with THIS nomination, at this point, it looks like the conservatives are the ones that hold the keys to the 2006 election, NOT the independents.

If we choose to turn out and vote for a more conservative senate so that we can push more conservative nominees, we will pick up seats. If we choose to stay home, we might well lose the senate, and ANY chance of replacing stevens or ginsburg with a conservative.

It is OUR choice (of course it is way too soon for there to be any choice). We can choose to give up on the party, or continue to work for it. That isn't an indictment, it is a statement of what i think is fact.

[BigSkyFreeper]

And that's the exact attitude that caused Bush to lose. Pat was Bush's "worst enemy", yet Bush thought the best strategy was to stick his head in the sand and ignore him. And Republicans still don't learn.

Pat is America's worst enemy.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The next beady-eyed goober that comes along and yaps ont his thread "I've been busting my ass at the grassroots level for 40 years for the cause, only to get this nominee!!", I'll mention Ruth Bader-Ginsburg.

You've been warned. :)

[Jeff Gordon]

You going somewhere?

Not me. I voted for Bush. I will stand behind him.

How about you?

[HighFlier]

How about: "War on Terror......but don't worry, we don't need to secure our own borders."

or

"Great Society.....I can top that with prescription drugs for all."

or

"New Education Bill......let's have Ted Kennedy draft it."

or

"Hurricane......no insurance, no problem, here's 200 billion and $2000 debt cards too. No amount of the taxpayers money is too great for me to promise."

If it were Gore doing exactly as Bush has been doing, the Democrats would be loving him and the Republicans would hate him.

What would your reaction have been if Clinton had nominated his personal lawyer who had no experience on the bench? Most of the Miers supporters here would have been going nuts.

[Eva]

Roberts was confirmed because there was no rational reason not to approve him. He had all the right credentials and none of red flags that could be used to stop him. There was nothing in his background to use against him. Plus with the two openings, the opposition thought that they would split the difference and give Bush the Roberts nomination and wait for the second nomination to fight. That way the liberal bias was not really in danger and it made the left look like they were compromising. The Republicans that are opposing Meirs are playing right into the Democrat hands.

[Map Kernow]

I repeat, I'm sick of this lame attack on George Bush.

And American patriots are sick of his conscious failure to defend the borders, even after 9/11. And a lot of people in the GOP are going to have reason to be concerned about that, real, real soon.

[Map Kernow]

You are able to tell us what Bush is thinking even when he says that is not what he is thinking.

Maybe it's because Bush has done what he said he wasn't going to do, and not done what he said he was going to do. That makes me think he's not saying what he's thinking, or not thinking what he's saying.

I am in awe of your great power and wisdom

And I'm trying to work up some appreciation of your feeble sarcasm.

[zbigreddogz]

Unqualified? Kinda like Buchannan was unqualified to be President?

Ya kinda gotta question the guys credibility on that score.

[Map Kernow]

Not me. I voted for Bush. I will stand behind him. How about you?

I voted for Bush. He didn't stand behind his promises or his base. That's gonna hurt him, and his party.

[Map Kernow]

The Republicans that are opposing Meirs are playing right into the Democrat hands.

That must be why Reid recommended her to Bush---to start an intramural fight, right?

[roses of sharon]

Why not run for office?

[Map Kernow]

Unqualified? Kinda like Buchannan was unqualified to be President? Ya kinda gotta question the guys credibility on that score.

Amazing how many people think this thread is about whether Buchanan should have run for President...

[Map Kernow]

Why not run for office?

Too ugly.

[roses of sharon]

As I suspected.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

For as of today there is no evidence Harriet Miers possesses the judicial philosophy, strength of intellect, firmness of conviction or deep understanding of the gravity of the matters on which her vote would be decisive to be confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

This statement is applicable to most of the serving justices.