Now we see the White House spin machine employing Clintonian tactics against the conservative base. They are employing the same old shopworn terms ("anti-feminist", "extreme", etc.) simply because Bush has nominated a third-rate crony whose lack of qualifications are not only indefensible but embarrassing. Instead of choosing one of the highly competent originalists with a proven track record and judicial philosophy he's selected a cipher who's a supporter of Gore, affirmative action and the DNC. Unfortunately he's had to drag Laura Bush into the controversy as a surrogate to mouth the feminist talking points. Does anyone seriously think that this idiotic charge is anything but ludicrous? Give us a Janice Rogers Brown or any of the other conservative and capable jurists! It's simply a manufactured issue by an administration which has been reduced to gutter politics because it can't rationally defend its betrayal of conservatives and its failure to keep its own promises to them. It's become more and more obvious that Bush is a poor excuse for a conservative. In fact a better case can be made for the fact that he's a big government, big spending liberal -- but that's another story.
As I keep saying, look on the bright side.
We will never have a Jeb Bush presidency.
That was punishment. Miers might well be "Laura's pick," literally.
"Now we see the White House spin machine employing Clintonian tactics against the conservative base. They are employing the same old shopworn terms ("anti-feminist", "extreme", etc.) simply because Bush has nominated a third-rate crony whose lack of qualifications are not only indefensible but embarrassing. Instead of choosing one of the highly competent originalists with a proven track record and judicial philosophy he's selected a cipher who's a supporter of Gore, affirmative action and the DNC. Unfortunately he's had to drag Laura Bush into the controversy as a surrogate to mouth the feminist talking points. Does anyone seriously think that this idiotic charge is anything but ludicrous? Give us a Janice Rogers Brown or any of the other conservative and capable jurists! It's simply a manufactured issue by an administration which has been reduced to gutter politics because it can't rationally defend its betrayal of conservatives and its failure to keep its own promises to them. It's become more and more obvious that Bush is a poor excuse for a conservative. In fact a better case can be made for the fact that he's a big government, big spending liberal -- but that's another story."
Well put. I agree with all you say. Even tonight on the Brit Hume show they surfaced the question of whether or not Bush himself is a conservative. Fred Barnes gave his usual defense.