Posted on 10/11/2005 6:14:59 AM PDT by Sometimes A River
COVINGTON, Louisiana (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush joined her husband in defending his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday and said it was possible some critics were being sexist in their opposition to Harriet Miers.
"That's possible, I think that's possible," Mrs. Bush said when asked on NBC's "Today Show" whether criticism that Miers lacked intellectual heft were sexist in nature. She said Miers' accomplishments as a lawyer were a role model to young women.
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Mrs. Bush, who had publicly supported the nomination of a woman to the high court, noted that Miers had been president of the Texas Bar Association.
"I know Harriet well, I know how accomplished she is, I know how many times she's broken the glass ceiling herself. She is a role model for young women around our country," she said.
This is something like the Schiavo threads except for the acrimony. ;-)
True, but people will never remember that. It was the media who created the 'immanent threat' argument too for the Iraq War, which was never an argument that Bush made. But since Chenney let the interviewer frame the question, that arguement eventually got pegged to the Bush Administration. Laura was tricked, but her response will be flame bait that will be repeated and attributed to Laura in the coming weeks.
I've heard her compared to Marshall, Reagan, Bork, Washington, Jefferson .....
Could you please define sexism?
I swear the Cheshire Cat is smiling in the trees in Lafayette Park.
Sexism - Discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex.
How do you support your statement that Laura Bush is checkmating the Dims? Accusing her own base of sexism even before the Dims do it is contempt.
The same thing would have been said about a man with her same lack of credentials for the Supremem Court. Sorry.
There is lots of room for a joke here, but I wouldn't want to be labeled "sexist". </sarcasm>
And is Laura Bush "pro-choice" as well? And where did Mama Barbara Bush stand on abortion?
Well he did clerk for a Supreme Court justice, which is usually a sign that you have some legal talent. In particular, he clerked for Justice Robert Jackson, who was considered to be a heavyweight justice. Aside from that, don't you think concerns about Miers' political beliefs are at least somewhat justified. I mean she really is kind of a cipher and what is even more unusual is that she appears to have taken some pride in being a cipher.
Your qualifications are as good as Miers'. Republican Party Reptile for the Supreme Court (seriously!!!).
Clarence Thomas was worth the fight and Janice Rogers Brown would have been also.
I don't want to sidetrack the threat, but this is a petpeeve of mine. Hussein was an imminent threat at the time given that he was routinely firing missiles at our pilots. At least if you talked to our pilots operating in the no-fly zone, I am pretty sure they would consider missiles being fired at them to constitute an immiment threat.
>>Just what is going on over there?
Second term. Second and final.
I doubt it.
I have no information on the issue. Do you have reason to believe that either Laura or Barbara Bush is pro-choice?
Guess Mrs. Bush is now a comprimising McCaininite herself. She should make herself the 15th of the gang of 14. Bunch of give in Pubs.
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