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80% of Potential SCOTUS Nominees on W's List Decline His Offer
Fox News | 10-11-05 | freedom4me

Posted on 10/11/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by freedom4me

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To: freedom4me

Maybe they didn't want to be trashed on FR.


21 posted on 10/11/2005 9:16:22 PM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: freedom4me

After the savage beating his other nominees have taken, I can't say I'm suprised.


22 posted on 10/11/2005 9:16:25 PM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Socialist liberals never imagine themselves as peasants under their 'perfect' socialist regime)
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To: Jim Robinson

Not necessarily...maybe the other 20% lean left of Miers.


23 posted on 10/11/2005 9:16:48 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Howlin

It's a fight I wouldn't personally want unless I was replacing Stevens or Ginsberg. That shift would be worth the trouble.


24 posted on 10/11/2005 9:16:56 PM PDT by KingKongCobra (The "Donner Party" can just go eat themselves)
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To: Lokibob

And you are assuming that there were 25 nominees on the list!!! I doubt that they were that many. I will say five or six, maximum 10.


25 posted on 10/11/2005 9:17:02 PM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: jdhljc169

THAT makes sense. Of the women, POTUS decided Miers was the reliable vote.


26 posted on 10/11/2005 9:18:11 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: freedom4me

Even if this is true, the remaining 20% still would have been a better choice than Miers.


27 posted on 10/11/2005 9:18:16 PM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: onyx
I think you may be 95% right on this one. Can you imagine what would have happened if Alberto Gonzales was chosen!
28 posted on 10/11/2005 9:18:22 PM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: onyx

I don't think he is on the list


29 posted on 10/11/2005 9:18:41 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Howlin
Would YOU go through this? I sure as hell wouldn't.

This is the demoncrats reason for being. Like what Saddam Hussein did to Kuwait, theirs is a scorched earth policy.

They know they have no ideas and are corrupt and anyone with a sane choice should not vote for them.

But they figure, if they can "persuade" the other side to give up, they can occupy the vacuum.

30 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:13 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: Siena Dreaming

Well, it'll be intesting to see, assuming we ever do get to see the names.


31 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: freedom4me

Just for that figure to exist, they must have asked 4 other people before Miers accepted: 4/5 = 80%.

Or were it 8 out of 10 who declined.......(?)


32 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:30 PM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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To: freedom4me
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.

I'm starting to get a whiff of steer manure. This looks like more WH spin on why this sorry pick "has to be confirmed."

33 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:45 PM PDT by Map Kernow ("I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Howlin

It was told to Doctor Dobson two days before the nominee was annouced.

Would YOU go through this? I sure as hell wouldn't.
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Yes I would and I would relish the "challenge". I think Judge Roberts had fun running circles with the Democrat senators and I would too.

That seems really stupid to let that out by the way. Makes the Democrats think they are successful at scaring potential justices.


34 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:53 PM PDT by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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To: counterpunch
Even if this is true, the remaining 20% still would have been a better choice than Miers

You don't even know who they remaining names were

35 posted on 10/11/2005 9:19:55 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: BlueNgold

I think this could be the basis for the buzz in the blog tonight that Miers was a last minute pick because the first or second picks nixed Bush.

I think this information is consistent with the information in this story, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1500781/posts?page=69 which states that part of the Miers pick seems to be a confused process and a rush job, which adds credibility to the rumor of a last minute back out.


36 posted on 10/11/2005 9:21:00 PM PDT by Cautor
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To: jveritas

I'm wrong, if the list had narrowed to women only and I think that makes sense.

Priscilla Owen had dropped. I posted the link to that article here a day or two ago.


37 posted on 10/11/2005 9:21:12 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes, it would be very interesting; unfortunately, I don't think the WH would release them for privacy reasons.


38 posted on 10/11/2005 9:21:21 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: freedom4me
I take no pleasure in the fact that this is 100% true.

The NY Times going after Roberts adoption records proved that the liberals will stop at nothing to destroy a nominee. These women have families, and I don't fault anyone for not wanting to put their families through that crap. Especially those who had already been through it to a lesser degree.
39 posted on 10/11/2005 9:21:22 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: jdhljc169

It's not. If you read the transcript of Dobson, he was talking about when they narrowed it down to women only.

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Ah, now that makes sense. Most women are not raised to embrace confrontation.


40 posted on 10/11/2005 9:21:51 PM PDT by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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