I was wrong; so please join me in supporting Harriet Miers.

[Randy Larsen]

Hey, get off the dogs back! At least he had the courage to come back using his old name, he could have avoided all the sarcasm by changing his name.

Welcome back Dog(just don't do it again!)

[Annie5622]

"This conservative infighting over Miers is wearing thin and only emboldens the rats."

and that's what tickes me off the most. Just watched Kristol on Fox. Who the hell does he think he is? It's obvious that he, for one, is just pissed because he wasn't consulted. Many of the hard-line conservatives have made asses of themselves, and unfortunately, the rest of us by association. They knee-jerked like democrats and spoke like moonbats. Of course the yare allowed to disagree, but 'team players' don't act like they have this week. Damn them for degrading the Republican party.

[Principled]

I do a lot of lurking, and your attempts to pick a fight are infantile. You sound like my four year old. How about discussing the ideas in the post?

[Torie]

Well he has repented, and is now free to sin some more. I don't like the rumor mongering though. That is sinning some more. I got some stuff on Miers actually, which may or may not be reliable, third or forth hand. Would I ever post it? No, not ever. Don't bother to ask what it is, or whether it is good or bad.

[flashbunny]

" He is also very fair about putting it in the title so you don't have to read it—even by accident."

If he was fair, he'd put this in general / chat or bloggers/ personal. Where is opus is.

Instead, it's in news / activism.

Why do you think that is?

Oh wait, asking questions is disrespectful.

[denco]

Thanks so much for this post. I had quit coming to the forum because it was so depressing to see us guaranteeing a 2006 Democratic victory. Thanks for the information. Denco

[counterpunch]

I think the story given to Pukin Dog is just a big pitcher of Kool-Aid.

[eddie willers]

A pretty persuasive argument, PD.

[Owen]

A mild re-iteration from above.

With Owens withdrawing herself, the list of FR rockstars narrows. You have to ask yourself which side would be willing to expose a nominee's historical faux pas. If Luttig had a nanny tax problem in his past, do you really think MoveOn would decide that it was not worth destroying a man's career over?

GW Bush said HM is the most qualified candidate. I interpreted this to include confirmability as a qualification in the context of Bush having called the RINOs. Now it becomes clear the meaning of qualified could have been broader. There may have been vetting problems with JRB or Luttig. It really, truly doesn't take much.

Clarence Thomas was clean and the left manufactured a vetting problem for him. Had they not been distracted by Cindy Sheehan (I often wonder if Bush took a long vacation for this very reason) they would have been far far deeper into Roberts' adoptions.

HM has been vetted clean. That, as much as Bush's knowledge of her philosophy, may have been her most powerful qualification.

[Texas Songwriter]

Bush needs to adopt Lyndon Johnsons addage, "I like to have a man's pecker in my pocket". Bush probably has enough intel of these pricks to scare them into giving an honest up or down hearing and vote on a candidate he puts forth. Nixon said it perhaps better in, "Grab them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow."

[maui_hawaii]

bump

[Guenevere]

Thanks! for the info and Thanks for returning...

..You're in good company with your assessment.

Brit Hume....just 5 minutes ago! said essentially the same thing!..

..He named one specifically, and said she had too much history/baggage that would have been held against her.

I believe you!

[oceanview]

so you are telling us that Spector thinks Miers will NOT vote to overturn Roe? is that what your source is telling you?

[Joann37]

Thanks, Dog, the reasons you mentioned do make sense. Even though it's an honor to serve on the Supreme Court, most people and their families could not withstand the grueling confirmation process. The vitriol in our country is probably 10 times worse than during the Bork and Clarence Thomas hearings, and not many people would put themselves through anything like that. These dems could make Mother Teresa look like a cad

I was certainly upset with the President, but your post lays out rationale he may have used when deciding on Miers.

[flashbunny]

"I do a lot of lurking"

Probably a good idea.

"How about discussing the ideas in the post?"

how about discussing the bigger idea?

Oh wait, that's infantile. Not posting an opus 3 days ago, not leaving, and then announcing in news / activism that you're back.

[Pukin Dog]

Look, all I want, is to crush the Democrats. That is all I want. My 'opus' as some are calling it, only divided us further, and that was wrong. When I got this information, I thought it was only fair to share it, because it changed everything that I had written on the subject up to now. Except for silly posts (which are usually under the influence of beer) I only write stuff here to help keep things positive, or share information I think people can use. When my information is not welcome here, I wont provide it. Other than that, this place is incredibly addictive and thanks to Delta, I have lots of time on my hands.

[Annie5622]

That's what some of us were trying to tell you to start with. IF you would have stopped ranting for a few days and did a little research, you would have saved yourself some embarrassment. Knee-jerk reactions should be left for the left.

[conservativebabe]

yada, yada, yada. You could have made your point in your first post and then moved on to commenting on the substance of the writing. Instead, YOU have been obsessing on PD's number of opuses.

Now, you are doing the very thing you accuse PD of, making it about you.

[streetpreacher]

If I want interesting, I'll read a Tom Clancy novel. This president is playing his games with the Constitution... again. He should find a better past time.

[Bush 100 Percent]

Pukin Dog!

You and Michael Barone. People whose analysis I trust.