Posted on 10/24/2005 6:03:59 PM PDT by Cautor
The campaign to urge the withdrawal of Harriet Miers has moved to the next level. Two new groups have stepped forward: WithdrawMiers.org (http://www.withdrawmiers.org/) is a consortium of social conservative groups that will encourage members to write directly to their representatives in Congress.
Some friends of mine and I meanwhile have organized Americans for Better Justice (http://www.betterjustice.com/default.php?page_id=1) which has raised money for a national television and radio advertising campaign to urge the withdrawal of the nomination of Harriet Miers. You will be able to see our spots very shortly on the site. They will be airing this week on "Special Report with Brit Hume," "Fox and Friends," the Rush Limbaugh program, the Laura Ingraham program, among other places.
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There is a very great deal at stake. The seat to which the president has nominated Harriet Miers has been the court's swing seat on a range of issues from same-sex marriage to racial gerrymandering, from religious liberty to federalism. It is too important to be shrugged off - and it is reckless to suggest (as some of my email correspondents are suggesting) that this is a job that can be done by pretty much anybody with a tablespoon of common sense. On the contrary, reversing 4 decades of bad jurisprudence will take very uncommon levels of courage, ability, integrity, and independence. Conservatives have worked too hard for too long to settle for anything less than our very best on the Supreme Court. Please join me and BetterJustice.com in pressing the president to reconsider and do better.
Your faith is in God. Not a man.
Frankly, your "God is a bushbot" kind of Christianity is a sort of idolatry.
Meanwhile, she embarasses herself in her meetings with senators and pads her questionaire with answers that underscore her lack of familiarity with constitutional jurisprudence.
I know you like the "uber" connotation--jack boots and all that, but I translate it to mean a conservative who isn't a Bush bootlick. I will leave that honor to you.
Oh, isn't that your father calling you?
"However, I take offense to a Canadian pro-abortion whacko defining U.S. conservatism."
Think of what a fool GWB must have been to have him writing speeches for him if he's that bad!
The anti-Miers bunch is embodying far worse.
The pro-Harriet crowd can indulge in the writings of Barnes and the center-right musings of Hugh Hewitt. Wow!
lol!!
My thoughts exactly.
Against Miers.
Against Frum.
Too bad he's on our side.
"Now we torpedo our own nominees before they get a hearing."
Miers may be your dream nomination, but she's not mine. Nor does she seem to be the dream nomination of a majority of members of the FR forum--at least now that her record--or I should say the lack thereof--is out for all to "see."
In addition, I think that two people whose faith is important to them are less likely to be lying about their intentions.
Bush said he'd pick originalists, Miers said she'll rule as an originalist. I believe them.
"Sure she does. We all do. She has a set of ideas or beliefs, just like any other living breathing human being."
Stop the presses! BigSkyFreeper is going to let the rest of us in or something big--Miers ideas, beliefs, judicial philosophy and all the rest. You must have been in on the selection process.
You think you know more than you do.
Yes. We represent the right to question a decision of the President. You will have to avoid us and NRO, Rush, Ingraham, Hannity, etc. from now on. Maybe you can subscrive to Hugh Hewitt 24/7.
But of course you and the rest of the Miers brigade will be begging for our support next year during the campaign.
"The influence of quislings like Will, Kristol, and Frum is dying, too."
Yeah, and quislings like Limbaugh, Ingraham, Weyrich, Krauthammer, Noonan, Schlafly, and Bork! Those people haven't done a DAMN thing for conservatism. (They're probably undercover marxists!)
Of course you do.
You likely think that when you go to a football game and you see a team in a huddle, that they're talking about how smart you are.
"leftist dingbats"
If you don't mind, I prefer the elitist, royalist, sexist designation.
All fixed.
How does you bumper sticker read ?
BUSH SAID IT. I BELIEVE IT. AND THAT SETTLES IT.
Do you trust Bush's word about securing the border ? I know I don't. Do you believe that Bush is incapable of believing what he wants to believe and making an important decision on emotional, badly thought out reasons ?
Christians can lie to themselves and others. Christians can screw up. Christians can fall prey to the temptations of vanity and self importance. Christians can make big, big mistakes. Put your faith in God, not in fallible, imperfect, fallen men.
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