Posted on 10/07/2005 8:51:48 PM PDT by Urbane_Guerilla
Don't you remember the utter let-down when elder Bush broke the fundamental promise he made, "No new taxes"?
The promise was not merely a bow to the Laffer curve, it was an emotional and pyschological statement to the many people in this country who still believe in constitutional goverment, and who knew that taxation was the means to undermine constitutional government, liberty and freedom, to put it another way.
The younger Bush promised a Thomas or Scalia for the same reasons: to tell the believers in constitutional government that supporting him would mean a definitive change in the jurisprudence of this country, jurisprudence which adhered to the basic concepts in our Constitution, not to a sort of current intellectual church of what's happening now.
In both cases, there was an even deeper issue, the issue of integrity. Integrity is the first principle of conservatism. Integrity means an unflinching openness to the facts and faithful adherence to principle.
"No new taxes," "Thomas and Scalia."
Unlike the Left, conservatives usually have the integrity to call out their own, regardless of political cost. The subtle political benefit of integrity is that there are so many people (conservatives) who vote for the politician who is actually honest.
Now, it is not a matter of calling out one of our own. It is a matter of calling out a charlatan, who pretended to be one of our own.
"Our own" what?
You're certainly not speaking for the vast majority of people on this forum.
Wow ... an amazingly right-on comment.
And so did he.
Why don't you wait until you're sure he's screwed you before you damn him to hell?
You mean The Wrist Slitting Right?
Why do you all INSIST on rehashing this over and over?
It was his pick; he made it; it's over; now leave the party if you don't like it.
Even after the nomination hearings we won't know anything about the woman.
She'll answer questions as the Senators wanted them answered. We won't get any deep revelations, we won't hear even a summary description of her judicial philosophy, we won't hear a single position she has on any issue because she'll take the Ginsburg defense.
All we'll know is whether or not she's quick on her feet, the level of her preparation to manufacture her first public persona to absorb the blathering Senators rambling ego trips of questions, and what her voice sounds like when she's talking into Congressional mics.
Of course, you mean YOURSELF as a conservative.
Because I'm one, too, and you certainly don't speak for me.
Reading your posts on several threads, anyone who complains about Miers seems to be a dolt in your book. So we all have to trust Bush on this lifelong appointment? I don't think so.
Now you're showing your true colors.
A more apt analogy would be a member of the College of Cardinals who was eligible to be selected as the next pontiff, but who had spent sixty years of his life desperately avoiding comment on any controversial doctrinal issue.
Miers rejected the Fed. Society-and if you want confirmation of this you can just punch up the revelatory pieces published recently in the WSJ by writers like Dan Heninger and John Fund-for either of two reasons:
1. She wanted to avoid being tied to any controversial-read Constitutionalist-judicial philosophy,
or
2. She has no such philosophy to speak of, and merely arrives at her views on an ad hoc, Justice Burger-like basis.
Neither possibility is comforting in the least.
That's what has been lingering in my mind this whole week; the Democrats actually gave him the seat by the way they acted.
Only if you're playing "Ineffectual Politics: How Not to Ever Put Yourself in A Position of Power."
No. That's not true.
Those who are calling for Miers to step down, or for Bush to withdraw her nomination are, indeed, dolts.
Give her a hearing. Let her share her views with the Senators, and with us. If she fails, she will go.
My question for these people is, if they make a point of not being loyal to the Republican Party then why should that expect any loyalty from the Republican Party?
Are you really THIS dumb?
He got it from HIS MOTHER.
You're a troll.
The conservative base wanted a sure thing. Miers is an unknown. I have no doubt she will be confirmed, so we have no choice but to hope for the best.
Almost as good as yours.
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