Posted on 10/11/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by freedom4me
During the 11:00 p.m. (CST) newsbreak, Donna Fuducia reported that Karl Rove told James Dobson that 80% of the potential SCOTUS nominees on the President's list declined his offer because of they didn't want to undergo the grueling confirmation process. Perhaps this sheds new light on the reason why W chose Miers.
Looks like they should be considering men also. Who says it has to be a woman?
Damn the RINOS for sure! They either end their bait & switch tactics or get carpet bombed! Not one more dime from me goes to the RNC if they continue to support clueless, gutless republicrats. My last dime went to the RNC prior to the "read my lips" fiasco.
Maybe not for the people who have family skeletons that would get dragged out by the MSM and the vicious 'Rats, such as a close family member with drug or other criminal behavior, etc. In an era when practically nothing is off-limits for the character assassins, some very fine potential nominees might be unwilling to drag their families through the ordeal.
Tap dancing. ROTFLOL! I'm dying here.
Mathematics makes this a crushing revelation.
It does not mean there were 20% conservatives left on the list. It means there were 20% conservatives left on the list to be vetted. We don't know, and never will know, who failed vetting. It would be horribly rude to release a list of those who failed vetting. Every nanny tax violation. Ever pot smoking misdemeanor. That's a lot of lives ruined just to explain to an intense base why one of their rockstars didn't make it through.
What we see is, indeed, Miers was the most qualified available candidate. With confirmability as a major qualification, it's hard to argue with "most qualified available candidate".
Oh Good Lord .. will ya just stop with it's Bush's fault
If you have a problem with a Senator .. then go after that Senator
The President is not the Senate's babysitter
That's a perspective I hadn't thought of. I agree. Thank you.
That's been instilled in enough people that the Republicans continue to have to work overtime, just like they do on a bunch of other issues, to avoid being stereotyped as a bunch of old white rich male racist bigotted sexist elitist homophobic gun toting corrupt mean evil wicked right wing religious nut cases.
Bush is a politician, amongst other things.
You have to run for something to be a politician? Slicing it very thin today.
Excellent point. We can only confirm one at at time. This is War. Go for it.
"Have you ever considered that perhaps your preference turned down the nomination or did not pass the vetting? There are those possibilities, you know.
725 posted on 10/04/2005 9:00:16 AM PDT by daybreakcoming"
Look what they did to the Perfect Candidate Roberts...why would any self-respecting jurist put him/herself through that.
And what if I thought you weren't qualified and came on here and beat the hell out of you, calling for you to step down without a hearing?
Harriett Miers did not refuse the call of W. We should give her a hearing.
Is your Ph.D. in "CS"(from your profile page) or Logic?
I don't think you would make it past Ann Coulter or George Will without a JD from a Top Ten law school. You should just withdraw your nomination in shame.
The Democrats' reason for being?! Why do we even need Democrats—the Republicans are doing a just-dandy job of scorched-earth opposition to a nominee. The "responsible," "conservative," "Republican" establishment has, in the past week, called Miers a sycophantic, left-wing, lesbian, schoolgirlish, idiotic, unlearned, corrupt yokel crony—and this is a churchgoing workaholic with exactly zero skeletons in her closet. G_d help a nominee with an actual history for the braying pack to savage.
In this political climate, anyone who accepts a future nomination is certifiably insane. I hope the rest of the justices stay put, because I for one don't want any lunatics appointed to the Supreme Court.
But we also talked about something else, and I think this is the first time this has been disclosed. Some of the other candidates who had been on that short list, and that many conservatives are now upset about were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over. Well, what Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter, that they didn’t want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it.
So, even today, many conservatives and many of ‘em friends of mine, are being interviewed on talk shows and national television programs. And they’re saying, “Why didn’t the President appoint so-and-so? He or she would have been great. They had a wonderful judicial record. They would have been the kind of person we’ve been hoping and working and praying for to be on the Court. Well, it very well may be that those individuals didn’t want to be appointed.
Seriously, Bush could not afford to give the Democrats a reason to vote against a male nominee. The context would have been "A man deciding what women can do with their bodies" and all that crap.
If Miers doesn't make it or drops out, you can be sure it will be a man next time around, but probably not a white man.
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