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Posted on 10/26/2005 12:40:47 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
Senators reject Miers critics
Senate Republicans yesterday dismissed conservative leaders' adamant opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers.
"This is absurd," said Sen. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee. "We need to move on to hearings."
"Enough is enough," Mr. DeWine said. "If I pick up one more paper and read about one more group that I've never heard of saying they're for Miers or against Miers -- it just doesn't matter at this point."
Manuel Miranda, who has helped organize much of the opposition to Miss Miers, said this battle will not be forgotten by the Republican base.
"Mike DeWine is going to lose in Ohio, and he should be more aware of grass-roots sentiment," Mr. Miranda said. "Mike DeWine doesn't have a great deal of conservative support in Ohio and ham-fisted remarks aren't going to help with that."
Mr. DeWine said Republican senators facing challengers in the 2006 election -- such as himself -- need not worry that their positions on the nomination will be held against them.
"This is not a factor," he said yesterday. "People are not having a big discussion back in Ohio. It's not a huge issue."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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"Mike DeWine is going to lose in Ohio, and he should be more aware of grass-roots sentiment," Mr. Miranda said. "Mike DeWine doesn't have a great deal of conservative support in Ohio and ham-fisted remarks aren't going to help with that."
From your lips to G-d's ear, Mr. Miranda.
Let DeWine breathe.
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Are the GOP senators really that out of touch? No wonder they govern in such a bizarre fashion.
As I said earlier today, I don't mind if the party is weakened if it is heading in the wrong direction. It seems like we need to start over with our senators.
About what exactly?
Maybe DeWine should resign, and then no one will care what he does with his newspaper.
Now we know DeWine's son acquired his political tone-deafness honestly.
You reap what you sow.
That's a lesson that the Taft-tax Republicans in the buckeye state are going to learn the hard way.
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The intra-party fight between Brown and Hackett will make for an interesting primary. They may very well bloody each other up so well that DeWine can sneak through again. Then again, maybe McEwen will decide to file for the Republican Senate seat.
I'm in favor of Harriet Miers reaching the hearings. I find it more odd that so-called Republicans are trying to scuttle a nominee before she reaches the hearings, after all the complaining that goes on when the Democrats attempt to do the same thing.
From here on out the Democrats are going to point at this sorry example of backstabbing activism on the part of conservatives and justify their borking of the next nominee...
Think about it.. If Harriet Miers is as incompetent or unqualified as everybody claims, wouldn't she be equally capable of sinking her own nomination in the hearings? Wouldn't a simple, "Sorry Mr. President, but we won't support you on this one." have been enough? Instead we got the vitriolic, name calling that we normally associate with the Democrat's, not to mention the gleeful manner that conservatives dug into her records misconstruing and misquoting out of context every potentially controversial statement, or grouping of words that ever left her mouth or her pen.
Then again, I'm just a Bushbot to be dismissed out of hand.
This is the same deal that unfolded with Abraham and McCain, where there were two perfectly capable anti-immigration challengers-with impeccable conservative credentials-who refused to step forward.
Sometimes you need to buck your party, regardless of the political repercussions.
I'm almost at the point where I hope that democrat who fought in Iraq who lost to Schmidt for the house seat and is running for the senate again Dewine in Ohio beats him.
That's a real mouthfull.
I have seen a awful lot of partisan stupidity of late, and I find it to be damaging to the party and the coalition. You cannot take good governance and throw it out the window just because you don't agree. Democrats and useful idiots do that. Not conservatives in my humble opinion.
One of the better rants I have seen today!
I'll join you in those thoughts.
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