Posted on 10/07/2005 3:50:01 PM PDT by Sam Hill
ROBERT BORK CALLS THE HARRIET MIERS NOMINATION "A DISASTER" ON TONIGHT'S "THE SITUATION WITH TUCKER CARLSON"
SECAUCUS, NJ - October 7, 2005 - Tonight on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson," former judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork tells Tucker Carlson the Harriet Miers' nomination is "a disaster on every level," that Miers has "no experience with constitutional law whatever" and that the nomination is a "slap in the face" to conservatives.
Following is a transcript of the conversation, which will telecast tonight at 11 p.m. (ET). A full transcript of the show will be available later tonight at www.tv.msnbc.com. "The Situation with Tucker Carlson" telecasts Monday through Friday at 11 p.m. (ET).
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Yes.
Man, are you way off base.
The simple truth is that by rejecting normal mainstream conservative judges such as Janice Brown, Pricilla Owens, Michael Lutig, etc. -- we are allowing the Dems and the media to characterize them as extreme, loony right wing judicial activists.
"See, even George Bush would not nominate THOSE judges," the libs are saying.
Look, Harriet Miers might be a great lady, and despite her apparant mediocrity, she might be a good Judge.
But what GWB has done here is poison the waters for years, if not decades, for anyone wishing to nominate a good mainstream conservative Judge for the US Supreme Court.
WHAT THE HELL IS A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERT ANYWAY?
If some jackass has to spend his life trying to build or create or study what the Constitution means, then he is thinking way too hard, because what the constitution means is written right there in black and white. Leave it to lawyers to complicate and destroy.
I'd take a plumber to a judge.
When you've been here as long as I have, you get used to the sound of the door banging.
If this nomination is so important to these people, one would think that they could marshal some elevated language to convince people. Instead, we get words like flak, crony, Church Lady, clueless, etc.
I am a student of unintended consequnces, and the pundits may be earning their own. I have zero respect for many of them anymore.
Twice through the crucible and once in the cauldron.
Some people are intentionally dishonest. She voted for Bush I in the *primaries*, but contributed to the DNC to support Comrade Dukakis days before the 88 election. Doesnt make sense does it?
That doesnt stop the usual suspects here from distorting the facts!
Did you post that with a straight face?
She voted for single member districts, rather than the at-large districts that were prevalant in Dallas prior to 1991.
Do you not think that geographical areas of a large city deserve a designated representative on the council?
True. You've got me by two years or so, but after 5+ I still like to think I'm a Veteran of Domestic Wars. ;-)
I look at it as the last straw. As a non party conservative, one that voted for Bush, I think many of us have finally had enough.
For the pubs this does not bode well in 06 and 08. Look at the personal hate directed our way here on FR. They asked for our votes and support, we did both, now we are lowest of the low and no name is too vile to bestow upon us.
"Stealth conservatism" The wave of the future. Pretty soon it will be so stealthy as to be undetectable.
I'm sure the nomination has poisoned the waters for years, but it certainly doesn't feel like advancing the cause. It feels like BOHICA.
And if I see fatal flaws in Harriet Miers during the hearings I won't hesitate to call my Senators and urge them to reject her nomination. Of course Dodd and Lieberman won't need my urging nor have they replied to me in the past 8 years or so. But that won't stop me from being heard. :-}
bttt
> Yet another "barking moonbat" joins the ranks of Schlafly, Steyn, Noonan, Krauthammer, Will, Frum, Norquist, Weyrich, Coulter, Levin, Bauer, Malkin, Goldberg, Kristol, Savage, Hannity, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Novak, Buchanan, the Eagle Forum, Operation Rescue, the National Review, the Cato Institute et al! How dare they question the wisdom of the Miers nomination?!
They're all Dimocrat trolls from DU. I just know it. Especially if they feel strongly about the gaping holes in the border. Schlafly and Jane Fonda probably drink mushroom tea together.
You are most welcome.
Even my dad, who is so pro-Bush it makes me insane (if you read this, Dad, I love you. Hahahaha) has had enough. If he is ticking off my father, there are problems.
If their personal privileges are at stake, you damn well bet they will. For example, if McCain is responsible - even partially - for a defeat of a quality conservative nominee, that will put a permanent end to his Presidential ambitions... at least as a Republican. The rest are weak-willed enough that if you threaten to take away their executive washroom keys they can be persuaded.
This is simply a matter of will. Do any of the folks we elected for the primary purpose of reversing the usurpations of the judiciary have the will to follow it through?
> I lost all respect for Bork when he supported Ruth Bader Ginsberg for the court.
YOW! Really? Do you have a link? If that's true, I'll never listen to another word he says. That's just mind-bogglingly stupid.
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