Posted on 10/23/2005 10:26:02 PM PDT by Checkers
-Dan
Is flip-flopping illegal on FR?
The rift is not between the left and the right, the liberals and the conservatives, but between the new and the old, the new thinkers and the defenders of the status quo. It's becoming more apparent that something much more profound is in play here eliciting these irrational responses and hysteria over different ways of doing things.
Will still defends the old elitism -- rather than the new egalitarianism that shifts the power from the old eastern liberal insitutions (Harvard, New York Times, Washington D.C., to the populism founded in western, frontier, egalitarian impulses and independence. Anybody west of the Mississippi is considered a cowboy -- instead of the preferred effete intellectual snob.
"Is flip-flopping illegal on FR?"
I don't know.
But try not to use the phrase "I actually did support Harriett Miers...before I didn't support her."
Nope. The FR poll on Miers has gone from a bare plurality supporting her nomination to a clear one opposing her. is
AUNTHARRIET; BOWTIEDPOPINJAY; CALLTHEWAAAAMBULANCE; CRAPNOMINATION; GEORGEFWILL; HARRIETTMIERS; MIERSLIARS; WILLNAILSIT;
Keyword abuse by both sides of the Miers debate. And to repeat my earlier question, where is the policy that restricts keywords to search terms, so that I make sure I (and others) don't violate it accidentally?
Conservatism still has a way to go, it seems.
-Dan
<< .... Arlen Specter or Patrick Leahy -- the new arbiters of conservative judicial competence. >>
Arbters sharbiters.
They are the ones with all the say - so, who cares what to call them?
[Just so long as they reject the hapless Miers]
"AUNTHARRIET; BOWTIEDPOPINJAY; CALLTHEWAAAAMBULANCE; CRAPNOMINATION; GEORGEFWILL; HARRIETTMIERS; MIERSLIARS; WILLNAILSIT;
Keyword abuse by both sides of the Miers debate. And to repeat my earlier question, where is the policy that restricts keywords to search terms, so that I make sure I (and others) don't violate it accidentally?"
When I started the thread, the only keywords I entered were: BOWTIEDPOPINJAY; GEORGEFWILL; HARRIETTMIERS.
Did I violate a rule?
Hugh Hewitt gives little George the spanking he desperately needs: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507525/posts
Just the opposite. The anti-Miers crowd lost the argument quite some time ago. Outside of FR, most of Bush`s harshest critics have been among conservative pundits like Will, Kristol and others who have been engaged in a public lynching of Miers. A action that is meant to punish Bush, but in reality one that will only help to undermine the time he has left in office.
We prefer posters do not mess with the keywords. Some posters have been suspended or banned for repeated spamming or vulgarities or screwing around with the keywords.
If George Will wants to run for president in 2008, there's nobody who's going to say he can't.
Until then, George the Lesser should defer to George the Great.
Then why is the nomination in sufficient trouble that the White House has seen the need to "relaunch" it?
And why do the pro-Miers sycophants spend more time ripping into questioning conservatives than in coming up with a single solitary reason why she's more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than someone whose stance on the Constitution of the United States is actually KNOWN? Someone like, say.... George Will?
-Dan
"If George Will wants to run for president in 2008, there's nobody who's going to say he can't."
Which party?
Why, the Conservative Party, of course.
Mr. Will, you're no Maggie Thatcher!
And Mr. Bush, you're no Ronald Reagan.
-Dan
Spoil sport
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