Posted on 10/13/2005 10:41:48 PM PDT by goldstategop
Lemme guess, you think it's sexist on Ms. Morgan's part??
Please... Harriet Miers has actually been treated with a good deal of personal respect. Both Ann Coulter AND Melanie Morgan this week wrote nice things personally about Miers while pointing out she lacks the experience in constitutional law, any track record to judge her capability to serve in an adequate manner, and there are many other nominees (YES, WOMEN if it must be a female Justice) with more experience, qualifications and demonstrated ability than Ms. Miers. Oh, and those other potential nominees have actually expressed a thought on a law once or twice in their lifetimes.
But of course they indignantly reject any suggestion that the Miers pick itself is "screwing the base."
(sarcasm)"
LOL!!!
I agree! That to me speaks volumes more than the fact that GW has known her for about a decade.
Amen. ;) Me too! It puts Karl Rove in the same political character of Democrats!!
Frum suggested Miers as A JOKE - within a day or two of her nomination he was on TV and radio pointing out he had mentioned her as a pick a few months ago as an example of THE WORST nominee Bush could pick.
She was back right away. She is on vacation.
I hear you. But the White House put out word it HAD to be a woman and that would be the only choice. If you read most of the pro-Miers' columns the Fred Barnes/Hugh Hewitt's of the world make this clear.
So the question is, will the Administration put forth a woman that is experienced, qualified and conservative or not? That's about the only battle that can be won at this point in time.
Since Melanie was hired by and remained on the payroll of a separate entity (The news company) for many years, I fail to see "cronyism".
Yes - HE WAS. Since Frum has explained over and over that he worked with Miers in the Bush White House and found her nice, loyal, hard working, but not exactly possessing the intellectual heft nor any interest/ability/experience in constitutional law to be on the Court.
Uh...I think that was a jab at PRO-Miers people. Haven't you seen "Every time you oppose Miers a kitten dies."?
I agree. And so does Ms. Morgan according to her 'open letter' to Harriet Miers.
Oh I think that's already begun.
You have seen www.StopMiersNow.com haven't you?
The anti-Miers crowd has joined with the democrats and are DEMANDING that the Senate reject Miers because she's not the super-duper-best-candidate-on-the-face-of-the-earth. They're demanding that Miers ideology (which they don't know) be used as a reason to dump her in the gutter. They've joined the ranks of the shrieking harpies on the left. Y'all ought to be proud of yourselves.
EXCELLENT POINT because there was NO conservative outcry against Clarence Thomas, was there? There might have been a doubt raised here and there, but that was it.
It speaks volumes that there is a growing revolt against the Miers nomination from the Right and that even her initial supporters are now pulling back.
The woman should never have been nominated to be on the Supreme Court - at least not at this time - and her nomination really needs to be withdrawn.
I rarely listened to him. Hugh always seemed to take a "voice of reason" position on some pretty basic conservative issues. He often sounded, well, a bit squishy to me at times when aggressive action was required.
Suspicions confirmed.
Stop acting like a bunch of leftist clones.
I think that's a bit unfair. She's "being stupid" for telling Harriet Miers that she (Melanie Morgan) thinks (as one conservative woman to another) that the best thing to do is for Miers to withdraw her nomination?
I don't think that's stupid at all.
You say that Melanie was, "and imagining she was elected to some office" - but again that's awfully unfair. If Melanie were saying she was going to vote against her nomination in the U.S. Senate I'd see your point. Melanie seems to recognize she has no vote, and thus can only call on Miers to do the decent thing... the right thing... and pull herself out to end this ugly ugly fight within our own ranks when such a fight is wholly unnecessary since there are SO MANY qualified, experienced, capable conservative women who could easily be nominated and receive nearly universal conservative support.
The problem is, if we deport all those conservative leaders who are opposed to Harriet Miers there wouldn't be a conservative movement left in 2006 nor 2008.
I appreciate the desire to support the President because he is a good man who we all agree with on many issues, but there are many issues he is not so great on. That doesn't mean we pretend to look the other way and agree with his mistakes. (For example: we will not all be in favor of massive deficit spending just because Bush and congressional Republicans have done so).
The Miers nomination comes after 30 years of conservatives gearing up for this big moment when there would be the vacancies + a GOP president + a clear GOP majority in the Senate + a bench of highly qualified/talented/intelligent/experienced conservative potential nominees.
George Will made an excellent point... if you were to go to 100 of the leading conservative legal scholars and asked them to name their Top 100 candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court Harriet Miers wouldn't be listed once amongst those 10,000 names.
There's a reason that good, solid, conservative legal analysts like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin and Ann Coulter (the people we all listened to during the Clinton Impeachment saga) are ALL against her nomination. It's because they all recognize the President has made a huge mistake.
So now we have the choice to either stop the bleeding or all go over the cliff together. Melanie's joined the list of people saying "woah, how about we don't go over the cliff and say we did, ok?"
Hmmm... you may be right, I don't know. My own personal opinion is that so far only a very tiny minority know much about Miers and support her. A larger minority knows much about her and opposes her. I would say the rest are in the "don't know" or "I don't know but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Bush for now" camps.
But, I don't read Melanie's work emails so I don't know exactly what the "base" is saying to her.
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