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Posted on 10/11/2005 9:39:29 AM PDT by bigsky
President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers -- ironically made to avoid a confirmation battle -- has touched off a battle the White House seems not to have seriously considered: a battle with the most reliable part of his own base, political conservatives.
The scale of the conservative rebellion against Miers is truly shocking. Within hours of her announcement the shots began from diverse redoubts. William Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, David Frum, Ann Coulter, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Pat Buchanan, and a legion of bloggers, commentators, organizers and grassroots leaders openly questioned or opposed the nomination as a mistake -- and a slap in the face to conservatives’ hard work on behalf of the Republican Party.
The Democrats are stepping back to see how this internal conflict plays out and The White House is in deep damage control. It will be tempting for the Bush administration to believe that, if it can solve the problem it created with Harriet Miers, it will have solved the problem with its Conservative base. But like most of the fights that occur years into an established relationship, this fight is about much more than just what it seems to be about today. There is a . . .
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Black voters are the conservatives of the Democratic party.
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I apparently wandered onto the republican party by mistake but the plantation made a hard left turn on me.
Pretty much. Who else do we have to vote for?
"In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician's public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician. Whether sincere or not, such an act of repudiation can appeal to centrist voters, at the cost of alienating some of the politician's allies."
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Also known as the shaft.
"In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician's public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician. Whether sincere or not, such an act of repudiation can appeal to centrist voters, at the cost of alienating some of the politician's allies."
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Also known as the shaft.
Nah, blacks are treated worse by dems that we are by Republicans. Wait, why doesn't this feel like a great defense?
No surprise from these bombthrowers.
I would say its more like the more hardcore fundamentalist Christians (the ones who support ID as "Science") are more like the blacks of the Republican party, rather than conservatives in general.
But it is true. After all I have lost count of the number of times I have seen people post, "Who else are you going to vote for."
Cool. I demand reparations!
"What's the alternative? The WH is trying to frame the debate as a case of "well if you don't vote for us, it will put THE DEMOCRATS in power!"
That's EXACTLY the game the democrats played in the last election and now the republicans expect me to play it.
The whining is deafening.
You can vote for the Constipation Party, or the Libertarians, or the Greens, or the Independents, or the Left-Handers, or Big-Toe-Suckers, or, finally, just stay home.
I long ago gave up on ideological political purity. I never get everything--in some cases, anything--in my own family. Why do I expect to get any different when dealing with a much larger group of people?
I am a conservative independent. I quit the republican party in 2003. I vote for candidates based on their positions. Not their party.
"I would say its more like the more hardcore fundamentalist Christians (the ones who support ID as "Science") are more like the blacks of the Republican party, rather than conservatives in general."
I don't know about that. At least Bush is paying public lip service to their beliefs. As a small gvt fiscal conservative, what has he given me to hang my hat on? N.O.? Prescription drugs? Dept of Homeland Security?
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