I'm defending her right to a hearing. If she tanks, I'll join you in calling for her defeat.
But this pre-emptive jihad some of you have declared on Bush and Miers ought to be embarrassing to you.
You scream when Democrats won't give our nominees an up-or-down vote, yet you want to deny Harriett Miers that very thing.
The nomination is an embarrassment to Bush and to anyone who wishes he would succeed.
From Another Thread: Freeper Burr5 reported on an article by David Brooks:
"You know I was one of Bush and Miers' staunchest defenders until this morning. Ann Coulter's column was a big blow. Peggy Noonan's was even bigger. But when I heard what David Brooks had written about this nomination, that was the last straw. I'd provide a link, but the NYTimes is registration-only, and people have to do that for themselves.
"Essentially, Brooks quoted excerpt after excerpt of Miers' own writings from her days with the Texas Bar Association.
They are the barely coherent ramblings of a singularly unimpressive mind- cliche-filled, garbled, ungrammatical, and devoid of any facts to buttress her assertions. It's like listening to your boss at a meeting prattling on about synergy, thinking outside-the-box, and win-win situations.
"I was wrong. Maybe she would vote to over-turn Roe. Maybe she would do what Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts suggest she do. I thought that would be good enough. It is not. I don't support this nomination anymore because the woman simply DOES NOT DESERVE this job. Not with legal geniuses like Janice Rogers Brown out there.
"Peggy Noonan. Ann Coulter. Glenn Beck. Laura Ingraham. Rush Limbaugh. David Frum. David Brooks. Robert Bork. Pat Buchanan. Mona Charen.
"I wanted all those people to be wrong. I thought it fair to get to know Harriet Miers before opposing her. I know enough now."
It is this kind of rhetoric that is inappropriate and uncalled for. So now, Miers opponents are akin to Islamic Fascists launching a jihad?
I have fought against that ideology sir, and have endured hardships and family separations to do so.
I will add now being a "Jihadist" to being a "Sexist", "Elitist" (from the White House attacks).
Glad to know you all want Miers so much you are willing to sew these seeds of such hostility. Perhaps it is all of you supporters of this nasty episode who should take a breath and look in the mirror.