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That's not an internal definition.

So where has Ms. Miers been in opposition to the statement made by the President and his understanding of what he was saying?..... Do you know his understanding or are assuming what he meant by his statement and his understanding of what he said/meant?

I can say something and understand what I mean by it and it may not be what your understanding of it is.... Communications is one of the most failed areas of human relations.

Al Gonzales. Next SC Justice. Proposed WH Bio: He vetted all GWBs court picks. He's a pioneer in the legal field. He was the first Hispanic CJ of the Texas SC. He's the first Hispanic AG. If you don't approve of him, you're a racist. </sarcasm>

Again, that's not "his" statement, it's the Republican Party Platform which he ran on. If he didn't like it, when running in 04 he should have changed it, incumbants can do that.

I don't know, any more that your or the hundreds of other posters on these threads do whether she has, in a judicial context, don't tell me she's a good American, a demonstrated respect for the Constitution and the democratic processes of our republic or has demonstrated that they share his [GWB's]conservative beliefs and respect the Constitution. None of this is in the record. No one knows, other than GWB, it hasn't been demonstrated, yet.

At this point it's probably more important to look to the hearings. IMO they're critical. If she presents herself in the Scalia/Thomas mold, that has been a verbal standard of GWB's, this is a tempest in a teapot as far as the nomination is concerned.

If she doesn't, she might still turn out to be an excellent conservative justice, but from a political perspective she'll set the standard, hopefully not too low, as a non-radical conservative nominee.