CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

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Pray for Harriet Miers. She is an honorable woman..........a quality that these guys can't even understand.

Amen.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I heard that several people who "should" have been nominated decided against it. Which is why we had Miers to begin in the first place.

You've been hoodwinked and bamboozled. There is NO evidence of that. Rove said it to Dobson to shut him up.

[thoughtomator]

Yes there is. This was a test of conservative strength and we have shown we are far stronger than anybody else ever imagined. And we will simply get stronger as time goes on, since we are the only ones with a positive vision for the future of America.

[Wolfstar]

Howlin, they didn't win anything. Not this round. Nothing. The damage they have wrought goes far beyond Ms. Miers and beyond this presidency. The precedent has been set that only people with these elite sorts of background are suitable for the Court:

She was graduated from Cornell University, and then attended Harvard and Columbia Law Schools. She taught law at Rutgers and Columbia Universities. She became a clerk for a U.S. district judge and taught law, becoming the first female tenured professor at Columbia School of Law. She then became a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, a position she held until she was appointed to the Supreme Court.

Who is she? Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Those throwing around complaints that Harriet Miers did not have just such a background have now set a precedent in which nominees for the court must ONLY a background such as Ms. Ginsberg's. Although the Court was graced with many, many "common" people in its history, it never will be again.

[adam_az]

"Obviously you don't understand RONALD REAGAN'S 11TH COMMANDMENT at all...you had better do some more studying. Attacking your own party should ONLY be done in private or behind the scenes, NOT IN THE PUBLIC ARENA WHERE THE MEDIA CAN EXPLOIT!!!"

That was before internet message boards, talk radio, and conservative media.

Guess what, most of us don't have direct access to the "behind the scenesters" who are typically the root of the problem themselves - IE country club RINO types.

Reagan was wrogn on a few things, amnesty and withdrawing from Lebanon among them.

[Black Tooth]

Get ready for Alberto Gonzales.

He pulls that, and he's going to hear from his base, all over again. In a big way. Bet on it.

[GOPJ]

I didn't back Mires, but it wasn't personal. SC seats are for years - and I didn't want a flip-flopper in the seat. She was too inconsistent for me. And I'm sorry I was flippant with you, you deserve better.

[Sloth]

Second the abortion issue. It's still very big especially with soccer moms and their naughty daughters. Bush sidestepped the issue when he ran in 2000. He said something about changing people's hearts and avoided any pledge to change laws - this was enough to convince enough soccer moms who otherwise would have voted for Gore.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030701-115636-9509r.htm

[Cedric]

You're dreaming.

[sinkspur]

Welp, this is good news, but I'm going to reserve my celebration until we hear who he nominates next. I see no reason to get excited given his past track record on appointments. I've already been let down once, I'm not going to set myself up for that again.

Here ya go, Wolf. Exhibit A of what I was talking about.

This doofus thinks Bush's previous judicial picks were just dreadful.

I'll bet he's advocating that he appoint somebody like Brown or Owen! LOL!!!

[ohioWfan]

My entire problem with this process has not been with people who legitimately opposed her nomination, Dog.

But since you were in agreement with them, perhaps you didn't notice the vile attacks on her as a person, and on the President, and on Christians, somehow excused as political discussion.

I have never witnessed such rottenness here..........no matter what the topic was. We have lost good freepers because they couldn't take it any more. It was out of hand.

I have spent most of my time just countering the bile spewing out of hate-filled ubercons. It's been disgusting.

I know lots of good freepers who opposed her nomination, but that's not what I'm talking about.

I still think there's a good chance that she would have been a great judge, but none of us knew that. And none of us ever will.

But we are 'blessed' by Sandra Day O'Connor longer now. I just pray that no important decisions are made with her still on the court before a conservative gets through the Senate......

[PhiKapMom]

If Freepers spent the same amount of time they are on here sniping out working to elect conservatives, we might have more conservatives in the Senate and House. That energy needs to be channeled in a positive direction not negative.

Politics is local and some folks on here need to be out working in their local precincts, counties, states to get more conservatives elected.

[Pukin Dog]

There is NO evidence of that. Rove said it to Dobson to shut him up.

Totally and completely FALSE.

MANY dropped out, but the point is that no one was supposed to know it. Dobson let it out of the bag. You cant expect anyone to admit to being not up for the fight, can you. A couple people who claim to have not dropped out are LYING. Their future chances are now GONE. If you believe Miers was the first choice, then you need to up your meds.

[rintense]

JRB would be an incredible nominee. I would love to see the liberals scurry around finding fault with her, other than political motives.

[LibertarianInExile]

"Now only a very narrow range of people will ever be considered qualified for the court. They must have degrees from Harvard, Yale or one of the other elite law schools. They must have academic and/or work experience in one specific area of the law. Never again can a "common" man or woman be considered for the court. What I mean by that is someone who has come up through the world most of us live in."

You're good at sticking to talking points but you suck at losing. For instance, did you know that most here seem to support CONSERVATIVES, without regard to their Ivy League credentials? It's horses' asses like you who stuck with the insulting tone and message that made the dissenters' ranks grow. If you think Miers' withdrawal set some Ivy League precedent, you are simply kidding yourself. It set a precedent that the GOP must appoint known conservatives OR at least hellaqualified stealth nominees with enough paper trail to look good enough to the base. And that's good precedent, not bad.

[dinoparty]

Wrong again. If Miers had distinguished herself as a Constutional originalist scholar or jurist after graduation, it would not have mattered a bit what schools she attended. We all would have been on her side. You know that.

[rcocean]

And that means what?

Sorry, to put you on the spot but spouting words like "politically wounded" is meaningless.

If Bush nominates a qualified conservative, like Edith Jones, Miers will be forgotten in 2 seconds.

[Wolfstar]

anyone who's seen you post around here knows you'd never have voted for a conservative anyway

Chump. That's the typical fallback for people like you. You throw around invective rather than use your brains.

[GOPJ]

The quagmire in Iraq, the rising deficits, no control of our borders, and forgetting his base has undermined his second term. No way around it,

Miers was a terrible choice at a time Prsident Bush really needs the suppoprt of his base.

I didn't have the right italics in the original post. I don't belive Iraq is a quagmire - I was pulling a quote from the article. I believe Iraq is the only path to peace.

[slowhandluke]

The ubers will simply move on to some other issue, where they'll plant their flag and threaten to not vote in 2006.

All 5,000 of them.

Right ... All those who gave Reagan two landslides ... yup, that's about 5000 all right /sarcasm.