Posted on 10/09/2005 5:10:13 PM PDT by RightSideRedux
Are you totally confused about the Miers nomination. Get the guide Pro and Con to help you out.
i think most of the outrage here at fr falls under the last item of "solid->cons"... i.e. "Last straw"
(that is not stating my position)
If Miers ends up being a squishy centrist (much less if she's a liberal) it could be the straw that broke the elephant's back..
i agree with "Bush 'forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution' by calling McCain-Feingold unconstitutional back in 2000, then signing it into law. "
but i'm still wait-and-see (i.e. waiting for more info) on miers. regardless i certainly hope he gets a chance at a third.
2002 -- not sure where i found that quote
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020327.html
"However, the bill does have flaws. Certain provisions present serious constitutional concerns"
"I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising"
"Taken as a whole, this bill improves the current system of financing for Federal campaigns, and therefore I have signed it into law."
My head hurts!
And that was 1988, about 17 years ago. Harriet was a 43 year old lady. I knew Dukakis was a dufus, and I was only 23. I just don't have much confidence in Harriet changing that much since she was 43.
Why couldn't somebody else do the same thing at the age of 43?
This has got to be one of the crappiest days on FreeRepublic I've seen in AGES. Review the topics over the past 24 hours -- freakin' depressing.
Reagan was hardly a die hard New Deal Democrat until 1962. Reagan supported Ike and Nixon. Truman and FDR were respectable men, hardly in the mold of Democrats today.
Haven't made up my mind yet about the lady. I'll wait for the hearings. But just cause she used to be a Dim shouldn'r disqualify her. Heck, even Ronald Reagan was one as well as Charlton Heston. Were they ''faking it'' too?
Everyone knew where Reagan stood, he didn't hide his views from the public. He moved to the Republican party or the Democrat party moved away from him, that's a lot different than Miers who saw her opportunity when the Republicans came knocking at her door.
We are talking Dukakis here...DUKAKIS! Radical Massachusetts lefty who would have undone 8 years of Reagan. Reagan couldn't convert her but a couple of years of Bush 41 and she is all of a sudden worthy of being a future Republican nominee to SCOTUS? We need to look at this matter logically.
"Constitutionalist"
Thats all I needed to hear.
IF you believe it, that is... no evidence for that claim has actually been offered.
Maybe it was really heartfelt, as a result of her new faith.
But she also seems to have switched right around the time when Republicans took over Texas politics. Opportunistic? I don't know.
Again, however, it's not the most serious objction against her - which is whethr she has a real handle on constitutional law and has an originalist constitutional philosophy and can articulate and defend it well.
We'll find out whether that's the case before long. It's a shame we don't know already.
"she's a constitutionalist"
"she's a constitutionalist"
"she's a constitutionalist"
there. happy?
man, I wish I could back those comments up.
Don't worry, the President backed you up on that comment.
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