Posted on 10/10/2005 12:59:26 PM PDT by RobFromGa
JUL. 4, 2005: DARK HORSE ... ... in the Supreme Court sweepstakes: Keep an eye on Harriet Miers, White House counsel. Miers was the first woman president of the Texas Bar Association, a co-managing partner of a 400-lawyer firm in Texas, a one-time Dallas city councilor, and by the by, the personal lawyer to one George W. Bush. She joined his staff as governor, served as staff secretary (Richard Darman's old job) in the first administration, and now oversees the White House's legal work. She is quiet, discreet, intensely loyal to Bush personally, and - though not ideologically conservative - nonetheless firmly pro-life. Plus she's a woman. Double plus - she'd be a huge surprise, and the president loves springing surprises on Washington and those pundits who think they know it all.
There are minuses too of course, beginning with that same discretion that recommended Miers as counsel: Supreme Court justices are often expected to have achieved a certain public profile before their appointment, while Miers has gone out of her way to avoid it.
But if the nomination process bogs down - or if President Bush's first choice of nominee should somehow stall or fail - then Miers might well be his back-up nominee. Scoff if you like. But if it happens, please remember that you read it here first.
11:38 PM
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Send this to Brit Hume.
Heh. Heh. Heh.
This sounds like Frum was perfectly happy with Miers last July. What happened? His columns now have the sound of a "woman scorned." I said earlier that his recent tirades are coming off as a vendetta.
though not ideologically conservative
howlin, could you ping your list?
LOL! Send this to David Frum, who now advocates that she step aside.
You know, actually, I think I remember reading this the first time. That line about how Dubya likes surprises, for some reason, rings a bell.
Google and web-site archives. Wonderful things.
Frum acknowledged that he had floated her name in his first post-nomination comments. Does this read like an endorsement or simply conjecture?
Did you read this?
I have read posts from others who know people who know her (which makes them on a par with Frum) and they indicate that she is conservative.
Plus she vetted all of the other judicial nominees that W put forward. Which, if she's not conservative, she knows how to fake it.
Glad to!
Great catch!!
I get so tired of the 'plus she's a woman' line. I know, I know, it's an unavoidable consideration in 2005, but I don't give a damn if it's a hermaphrodite as long as it is whip smart and takes the Constitution for what it is!
FRUM: WHAT THE INSIDERS ARE SAYING [Andy Card wanted Miers fired?]
It reads like he didn't hate her as a pick which is his current position.
I saw that; he thinks they put her on the Supreme Court because Andy Card didn't want to fire her?
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