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This is what I find most perplexing. That rather than fight with the left, GWB would prefer to fight with his base. Laura called me, and every other thoughtful conservative who opposes this nomination, a "sexist" today. The White House staff has been even more abrasive in their characterizations of us. I only wish they were half as forthright in going after Harry Reid.

They announced ahead of time that they were predisposed toward a woman and then they picked the least qualified one, based on her personal connections. It happens in institutional hiring all over America every day. There is no reason to wonder why government is inept. It starts at the top.

This is what I find most perplexing. That rather than fight with the left, GWB would prefer to fight with his base.

Discretion is the better part of valor
- Falstaff in Shakespeare's King Henry the Fourth.

6 posted on 10/11/2005 5:00:51 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (When Frist exercises his belated Constitutional "Byrd option", Reid will have a "Nuclear Reaction".)

I'm happy to be a freeper and a Conservative republican right now. Unlike the democrats when our man does something wrong we won't just go along for the ride.

Fact: BUSH was afraid of a fight. He does lie when he says he picked the best. He kicked his base in the gut.

BUT I Still love the man. I only hope he admits he made a mistake.

Sadly my FRiend, Bush no longer needs us, he got re-elected. However to get anymore of his agenda through, he might need Harry Reid.

9 posted on 10/11/2005 5:09:44 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)

Just to clarify, why do you think Dubya is picking this fight?

IMHO, considering current Senate realities, Dubya figured he had a better chance winning a fight with his base over a known quantity (that the base will like), vs losing a fight over a publicly known quantity.

10 posted on 10/11/2005 5:15:07 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (When Frist exercises his belated Constitutional "Byrd option", Reid will have a "Nuclear Reaction".)

"Laura called me, and every other thoughtful conservative who opposes this nomination, a "sexist" today."

Perhaps you didn't see the show or the transcript. When asked if she thought it was "possible" that sexism played a part, she acknowledged that it is "possible." That is not an accusation. It is an acknowledgement of a "possibility." She did not say it was probable.

Should a First Lady, in that instance, reply that it is not possible? What if she were then proven wrong by some knucklehead who said he opposed Miers because she was a woman? Mrs. Bush can't "win" in this matter now, can she?

Laura called me, and every other thoughtful conservative who opposes this nomination, a "sexist" today.

No she didn't.