I've trusted Bush's pick on her since about the 4th or 5th day of his announcement. I will continue to trust his judgement on her pick.
I am one of President Bush's greatest supporters and always have been.
But with all that, and the best intentions, he is human, as and such, not infallible.
Back when he didn't stand up for Lott, and for such a minor thing he allowed himself pushed by the "conservatives" to replace him with Frist, I was concerned. I didn't think Frist had the experience and strength to keep the Republicans in line and be a LEADER. And unfortunately, history proved that President Bushw was wrong on that one.
Frist's lack of leadership and lack of ability to twist arms as necessary was what allowed the RINO-s to joint the Dems and scuttle the Constitutional Option. I would be willing to bet anything, that this would never have happened under Lott, who knew how to keep the Republicans in line. If they had passed it, President Bush wouldn't have to resort to nominate stealth candidate, he could openly nominate someone he should, as solid conservative.
It can all be traced back to that poor choice of putting Frist in as majority leader, when we already have a strong one, that's why the Dems wanted Lott out, and the conservatives obliged. Now we are seeing the fruits of that.
The point is that this nomination is extremely important, because if Miers turns out to be moderate to liberal leaning, the next president is a Democrat and she will replace the next retiring judge or two with leftist liberals, we will have a leftist liberal court for the next 50 years. We cannot afford the gamble.
">>>>Harriet Miers' deep loyalty to George Bush could lead to her making dangerous interpretations of the Constitution."
I'm agreeing with you. I believe that I support Miers too. My prayers are with her and I want her to be able to stand the pressures that will be put on her. The people that have fears of what she would do because of that quote above, I feel are on the left. Compared to what some of those other Justices do by using laws from Europe to make their descisions, If she uses the U. S Constitution that has Freedoms and Liberties given to us by God and put into writing by the Founding Fathers; she will be okay by me. I believe that's what scares them is that she would use the U. S. Constitution like Scalia and Thomas do and that will be okay for me. God Bless America and all who have and will defend Her.
That's fine but I would remind you that there are very good indications that he went against Rove and Cheney's recommendation on this pick.
We'll probably never know but the fact that neither Rove nor Cheney were part of the interview process with Miers speaks volumes to me. This is highly unusual. Bush's top three political advisors have to be Rove Cheney and Card (who did interview Meirs and with anything as highly charged as a supreme court nomination you would expect Bush to make sure that all three of these guys were on board. It doesn't look like it to me. If you saw the Brit Hume interview of Cheney earlier this week you surely saw that Brit Hume doesn't believe the Cheney support is really there for Miers - he's just a good soldier (in fact the best) and so he naturally supports Bush's decision.
I likewise have trusted Bush on his choice of judges, and I am not about to listen to a bunch of malcontents who think thousands of posts prove Miers is not fit for the seat on SCOTUS.
If you think that depth, intellect, and judicial experience don't matter as long as Conservatives get consistent "Conservative" votes from the bench......Miers AIN'T IT!!!!
I have MY OWN CRITERIA!
The criteria are NOT diminished by the number or type of people disapprove of Miers for OTHER reasons.
Trust this pick?....
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