Posted on 10/19/2005 7:09:41 PM PDT by Cautor
TRANSCRIPT FROM TUCKER CARLSON SHOW:
Adding to the sexism, elitism, faith, and threat cards in the White House arsenal, comes the "far right" card.
Speaking in support of Harriet Miers on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show last night was Brad Blakeman, described by Carlson as "a former deputy assistant to President Bush [who] shared an office with Harriet Miers for three years."
I'm posting the entire transcript of the Blakeman interview below. Go to the parts in bold to see the "far right" business. CARLSON: ...today one of the many questions regarding Harriet Miers has been answered, in part, anyway, in a questionnaire Miers filled out while running for the Dallas city council in 1989. She clearly indicated, or seemed to, that she's opposed to abortion, unless the mother's life was in danger.
Some conservatives are not satisfied with that, but one who appears to be, joins us now from Washington. He is Brad Blakeman. He's a former deputy assistant to President Bush. He shared an office with Harriet Miers for three years.
Mr. Blakeman, thanks for coming on. [SNIP]
BLAKEMAN: No. I think, Tucker, the president could have put forth Mother Teresa, and there were some on the far right that said, "Well, you know, she's not really religious enough for me."
CARLSON: That's totally not true. You know that that's not true.
BLAKEMAN: No, it is true. The fact of the matter is, the far right...
CARLSON: Hold on. Wait. Hold on. Slow down.
BLAKEMAN: The far right thinks that...
"If wanting brilliance in a Supreme court nominee makes me the far Right, so be it. What are the Miers troops ? - The Mediocre wing of the party."
They are the blindly loyal wing who accept all they are fed on faith even if it means accepting mediocrity when there was more. I think they might even be called the WE TRUST YOU DUBYA wing.
Clearly, that is the reason David Brooks, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, and all those other conservatives chose to oppose Miers. They're just right-wing religious extremists. /s
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Was Harriet Miers by any chance your "Writing & Composition" teacher?
Does it matter, is this being graded? Do I care?
"She will be snuggling up to Souter in no time."
Metaphorically speaking of course given what we know about Souter's proclivities.
Anti-Miers people are elitist/sexist/anti-texan/meritocratist/CINO/RINO/traitor/DUmmy/li,burr,ul/kitten,killing/Bush,hating cry,babies
I think the "kitten killing" completes the rant nicely.
No, but if you want your posts to be read, you should care whether they're intelligible.
IWWT.
"I don't even know what a principle is, let alone what I'd do with it even if ah did know."
You'd make mammy Yokum proud boy.
The full transcript reads like any of the FR Miers threads!
She's his grammar.
Hey you must have missed the bus, this is FR not DU. Get a life and grow up.
Well put. Your observations are worth repeating:
What an absolute red herring.
Who does this guy think is opposing Miers?
He must seriously consider Republicans to be unserious people.
The problem isn't that she's "not religious enough."
Hell, it was the White House who was pushing her religious credentials.
It was Bush who chose her for her Evangelical faith.
The rest of us oppose her because she has no serious legal qualifications for the highest Court in the land. It's not her Bible study that we're worried about, it's her Supreme Court case law study.
There are only maybe 10 people in the entire country whom are both qualified enough and acceptable for conservatives, and Miers is not one of them. Not even close. And that has nothing at all to do with religion.
Clarance Thomas is probably more cuddly!
"Odd."
Indeed.
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