My fellow conservatives... please feel free to use this as a resource when arguing with your friends who work at the RNC, for the White House, or had a 10 year romantic relationship with Miers and are now asked to appear as talking heads on cable news channels to tell us how smart she really is.)
How about we use this as a resource to key in on a bunch of self important crybabies who think they speak for conservatives?
Some have called for Bush to pull Miers' nomination. Some have called for Miers to go to Bush and pull her own name. Some have started a petition to have the White House pull her nomination. Some have simply called her a "disaster" of a nominee without saying what should be done. Others have said the President would be best served if he were to pull the nomination but haven't necessarily demanded it. Others have just pointed out the problems with Miers as a SCOTUS nominee.
I point that out so that no one will get their panties in a wad and say "this person DID NOT say Bush should withdraw the nomination."
This is the list I've been keeping of the people who made it clear that if they were asked whether or not to nominate Miers they ALL would have emphatically said "NO."
And before all is said and done we might have each of them demanding the withdrawl of Miers' nomination. As I said... many of them already have.
Is this the point where I am supposed to be impressed? Wait a second. I know its coming. Hold on. I can feel it welling up. Dang! Just ain't doing it for me.
Oh well.
My loss I suppose.
Is this the kitty killing thread?
When they can come up with a logical substantive reason not to confirm Miers, I might listen. Until then, they're just throwing a temper tantrum.
That's quite a list.
you've also forgotten rush and david limbaugh as well as mark steyn
Speaking for all of the working class filth of the United States, I cast my vote: nay.
I've already contacted my two senators - neither of whom serves on the Judiciary Committee - to inform them that I and most of the people I know (conservative AND liberal) are opposed to seeing this third-rate crony trumping the BEST prospects. The reason? If this nonentity gets thru the Judiciary Committee she will need confirmation by the full senate. More important, if senators start feeling the heat of public opposition they'll both communicate it to Bush and start thinking about their own reelection prospects. This may be the last opportunity for a generation to move the Supreme Court in an originalist direction. Bush blew it but we conservatives are NOT powerless! Let's raise hell and let them know in DC that we've had it with this farce!!
I am a lawyer. I have been involved with the Federalist Society since I was in law school. I do not know a single lawyer who supports the Miers nomination, which is, in fact, an embarrassment.
bttt
We are not a group of droids. Thomas Sowell is willing to hear Miers out, Scalia thinks a non-lawyer might be good for the court, President Bush has confidence in her, Fred Barnes hasn't joined the Choir Unanimous to defame her.
There are "workers in the field" who think she needs to be given a chance: James Dobson, Chuck Colson, Rick Warren. These men aren't mere wordsmiths...they are actively involved in the cause. And I saw an article earlier this week that said many of the 'grassroots' leaders at the county level of the Republican Party trust the President on his choices.
Count me among those conservatives who would love to "stick it" to the libs, but will be behind Bush on his judicial picks until he shows a habit of picking liberals. He hasn't, so he still has my trust.
http://frum.nationalreview.com/petition/
Hannity is against it as well.
Clearly, Pat Buchanen does not belong on the list. Didn't he belong to a Reformed party with floating boy?
He's anti-semitic, as well.
George Will doesn't count because he's been ABC's token conservative so long that no one can tell whether he's toadying up to his handlers or being intellectual or churning out inches for his column or being his own man.
Ann Coulter generally counts, and she's been consistent. She opposed Roberts, too. (Which she doesn't speak about too much, anymore.)
Peggy Noonan doesn't count because she's too busy trying to turn a phrase or condemn Bush's religious phraseology in speeches. She clearly would oppose an evangelical conservative.
Michelle Malkin counts. She's pretty straightforward.
Robert Bork doesn't count because he's borking his own side; not even giving her a chance to speak before he condemns her.
Bill Kristol doesn't count because he's a McCainite. He's been getting over that for years. Anyone who complains about CFR, when his own guy forced it, has no moral standing.
Schlaffley counts.
Krauthammer counts.
Ingraham counts.
Everyone named Mona is suspect.
Who cares about the remainder...just talking heads.
Finally, I noticed that Bush counts. He's the president and gets to make nominations. He gets to do insider counting of Senate noses to see who really will support him when it comes to voting.
I noticed that all the others are professional commentators/critics. Hmmmmmmm.............
I was particularly incensed by Ann Coulter's comments this week on Hannity. While a big Coulter fan (I have two of her books), her comments were nothing short of elitist. She may be Harvard educated and her specialty may be constitutional law, but she isn't a damn bit smarter than me and some of my less-than-elite friends, or Harriet Miers.
I can read The Constitution and will bet Harriet Miers can too. I want the courts in this country pointed back to its elegant simplicity, not "reinterpreted" by a bunch of nuanced, self-absorbed elitists.
Useful Idiots Ping!
Let's look a little deeper and see what they have in common, could it be their or her religion? Is this why some conservatives, consciously or unconsciously oppose her?
I'm no lawyer but my deceased father was a lawyer and he's opposed to this embarassing nomination!
Elect mediocrities, expect mediocre results. Remind yourself who else was running on the Pubbie side in 2000.
The GOP nominees have been an embarassment after embarassment since Nixon and Reagan!
All that remains in memory are Chevy Chase's pratfalls, checkout scanner shock, vomit all over a Japanese prime minister and now this semi-literate sycophant!