[BlueNgold]

Pukin Dog had this info Monday.

[BamaGirl]

I don't think this is true. As my husband says, if you've got a chance at the top job, you should take a swing at it.

[Mo1]

FYI

[Jim Robinson]

Well, that leaves 20% who are unafraid hard as nails conservatives. Damn the RINOs, let the battle rage on!

[RTINSC]

4 out of 5 or 8 out of 10

So, will we see "Bush's fault". Someone will have the list. Curious.

[Lokibob]

80% would indicate to me that Myers was his 5th choice.

[JCEccles]

We also know that Bush only considered women for the slot. If he had five women in mind, four declined. That's believeable.

He should have broadened his criteria to include men instead of playing affirmative action quota games. He would have found qualified nominees willing to face the jackals on the Senate Judiciary Commitee.

[dc-zoo]

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

[Alien Gunfighter]

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

[counterpunch]

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

[SteveMcKing]

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.......(?)

[Map Kernow]

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."

[Pukin Dog]

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.

[RTINSC]

So, if 80% of the candidates lacked the cajones (I know, I know) to face the proceedings, what does that say about Miers?

[ThePythonicCow]

Wrong!

Here's the quote, from another post now on FR: Dr. Dobson to Set the Record Straight on Miers Flap, which has the transcript of this interview:

JCD: Well, it’s true. The Democrats have so politicized that process that it’s become an ordeal and many people just don’t want to go through that. And I’m not sure I blame them. So, Karl Rove shared some of that with me. He also made it clear that the President was looking for a certain kind of candidate, namely a woman to replace Justice O’Connor. And you can imagine what that did to the short list. That cut it…I haven’t looked at who I think might have been on that short list, because Karl didn’t tell me who was not willing to be considered.

But that many have cut it by 80 percent right there.

Maybe I need reading lessons, but that reads to me like the 80% number refers to dropping the men, not dropping the decliners.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Completely believable. Everyone remembers the Clarence Thomas nomination. For tens of millions of Americans who do not follow supreme court rulings, the one thing they most associate with his name now and for the rest of his life is the alleged harassment of Anita Hill, the pubic hair on a coke, porn videos, etc.

District and Appeals court nominations are one thing, but, as is now being demonstrated (and will continue to get worse) with Ms. Miers, the Supreme Court is completely different.

Do you think people have forgotten the attempt by the NYT to get behind the sealed adoption records of Justice Roberts' children to dig up dirt on him?

[Spiff]

The question we need to ask is WHY? And then we need to find out who has allowed this situation [cough...ahem...McCain...cough...Specter] and then we need to make them pay. We need to hurt them so bad that anyone who tries to pull this crap in the future would be so scared of the consequences to even think of it.

[You Dirty Rats]

This is a disgrace. The SCOTUS confirmation process has really hurt good people like Clarence Thomas and now it has prevented people from publishing if they want to be confirmed. And all because the Left is determined to use any means whatsoever, including personal smearing, to defend a horrible decision in 1973.

Now we see that potential nominees want out because of the lynching. Sad. This is NOT what was intended with the confirmation process.

But people on the Left and Right agree -- IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!! We don't even know what his options were, but so many here have viciously attacked him. That's OK; he still has loyal supporters. He's fought for good judges so far and he hasn't stopped now.

[jpsb]

If this is true and I don't believe it then it says more about Bush's leadership skills the anything else.

Who is going to refuse to serve if asked by the President of the United States. I did not like Bill Clinton but had he asked me to serve I would, no one turns down the president of the United States when he personally asks for thier service.

[potlatch]

Ping!