Posted on 10/10/2005 2:59:18 PM PDT by quidnunc
I suspect that President Bush was shocked to find such an uprising against his choice for a Supreme Court nominee. Why? Because it is coming not from the Liberal Left, but rather from his own base. Even George Will ran an opposition piece against Harriet Miers.
Conservatives have complained, in the past, about the elitists in the Democrat party as being the most liberal group and seemingly in a consistent state of launching snob attacks at everything this “cowboy” (as they call him) does.
I think that the Conservative-Republican cause also has its own share of these elitists, those who look down their noses at anyone who does not graduate from Harvard or Yale or even Stanford. …
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My personal views:
1. President Bush has "lived” with this woman for many years and knows her heart and soul. She helped him find Judge Roberts and the others potential candidates, so she knows what is needed to save this country and he knows this! No other president has ever been associated for so long or worked so closely with a Supreme Court nominee, so the fact that other presidents have been fooled by past selections does not mean that this can happen to this president!.
2. It is bad enough having the Democrats and fellow Leftists against us; we don't need Republicans, too.
3. It is not as if Bush carried a mandate when elected. There are still letters to the editor claiming that either Gore or Kerry really won the presidency, the latter by a bad vote count in Ohio. The media is trying daily to smear the President or his administration.
4. We don't need a long drawn-out battle in Congress right now with a possible filibuster, especially with all the problems raised by the Democrats and the biased media re Iraq, Katrina, the budget deficit, et al.
5. The President may have to appoint two more Supreme Court judges before his term expires, so there is still an opportunity to put up controversial conservatives for the Supreme Court and have the time to wage war against the Socialists in Congress.
6. We lost one election to William Jefferson Clinton because too many Republicans were mad at Bush Sr. including me, and so we voted for Perot. As a result, we had Clinton for 8 years. Let's not make that error again. Do you really want eight years of Hillary and her court nominees?
7. Did the Democrats condemn Clinton when he was impeached? No! They blamed everything on those “mean nasty Republicans” who thought that having sex with a young intern in the Oval Office during business was bad. Some Republicans joined the Democrats. Do the Republicans constantly back President Bush? No! If he is not 100% perfect, we want to punish him. Even 90% perfect is not good enough.
8. No baseball team could win a game if the team was run by what the fans in the park demanded instead of what the coach saw as a winner. Nor, could employees successfully run a corporation if the CEO had to follow their rules rather than what he (or she) knew best. We elected a boss. Back him. The next time, we had better get a stronger mandate (more voters) if we are to obtain an even stronger hold over Congress in 06 and 08!
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Ya know....YOU used to be a Democrat.....I'm sure we can't trust that YOU won't be SWAYED in the future to the Left, right?
Do her credentials stand alone?
If she was not a friend of the Administration, would she have been selected?
If she had been picked by the Dems, would she be acceptable?
The original poster is one of those GOP is god kind of people..
Betaille was a Democrat just 3 years ago.....he/she should be "disqualifed" from commenting as far as I'm concerned.../sarcasm
That's a reasonable position. I can respect that.
Also, I don't think all this conservative turmoil is worth it, when there were other(s),
So who is raising the turmoil? Armchair quarterbacks of all stripes.
Excellent points.
>>there is still an opportunity to put up controversial
>>conservatives for the Supreme Court and have the time to wage war against the Socialists in Congress.
If we are busy waging war against the Socialists, will we still have time to wage war against the Democrats?
I disagree. Most of us don't care if she graduated from Biff's College of Law and Auto Mechanics Institute. The fact is that she has no record as a conservative.
Seven of the nine justices on SCOTUS are Republican appointees. We (conservatives) have been burned too many times to blindly accept a nominee with a history of RAT campaign contributions and no proven conservative philosophy. Conservatives are willing to walk through hell for Janice Rogers Brown, Michael Luttig, Samuel Alito, Priscilla Owens, Emilio Garza, Miguel Estrada or Edith Clement. Instead, we get a former Lottery Commissioner.
"So who is raising the turmoil? Armchair quarterbacks of all stripes."
Yes, I wonder if he had known all the squabbling Miers would generate, would Bush have even nominated her. I think he would have gone with his 2nd choice.
Pray for W and Harriet Miers
"Miers once owned a .45-caliber revolver, a gift from a brother who was worried about her safety when she lived alone in Dallas."
She said, "The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts," Miers wrote in Texas Lawyer when she was president of the state bar. "Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble ... access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance.
"We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs," she concluded.
Exactly.
Absolutely.
Having been connected to people the caliber of George Bush, Dick Cheney, or Condoleeza Rice-why would she ever consider demeaning herself with the "intelligentsia" of Washington, DC.
How much of the background of those you listed do you know? I mean THEIR PERSONAL BACKGROUND. I'll bet the President has more information on them than you do, and that he nominated Miers because she can make it through the DEMOCRAT ANAL EXAM that will be given for every Republican nominee. Betcha! Those ALREADY on the bench somewhere, as those on your list are, have LOTS to lose if their backgrounds aren't CLEAN as a raindrop in the rainforest.
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