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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

just breaking!!!!!!!!


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To: Howlin

If you're going to vote for them no matter what they do, why should anyone care what you have to say?


1,841 posted on 10/27/2005 9:10:26 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Liberals: Get your human shields lined up quick or you'll miss the bombing!)
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To: Jokelahoma
Why do you suppose the number is 10-1? It's because the other side has been driven out and that is my point! It is a form of Censorship that will hurt in the end. The Conservatives who support the President have left and their opinions left with them. That's what is wrong with the Thought Nazis.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

1,842 posted on 10/27/2005 9:10:43 AM PDT by bray (Iraq, freed from Saddamn now Pray for Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: PhiKapMom

Thank you for Dr Coburn!!!


1,843 posted on 10/27/2005 9:10:49 AM PDT by mosquitobite (What we permit; we promote. ~ Mark Sanford for President!)
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To: Wolfstar

Strawmen. The opposition was based on the total lack of constructionist credentials and the conflicts of interest inherent in the nomination. Everything else was tangential.


1,844 posted on 10/27/2005 9:11:16 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Liberals: Get your human shields lined up quick or you'll miss the bombing!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is anyone suprised to hear the left wing looney liberals, blaming us right wing zealots for her decision to withdraw her nomination? The libs got exactly what they wanted and would have likely have gotten by hook or crook,even had she been given her chance before the Judiciary committee. Thanks to our beguiled conservative brethern, the libs got a whole lot more than MS Miers withdrawing her nomination-they can now blame it all on us.

As for us, we may have in our ignorance, rejected the savior of unborn babies, that God sent in answer to our prayers.Only time and the next appointee to be confirmed, will tell.


1,845 posted on 10/27/2005 9:11:19 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (How the hell could Bush have passed up a Ronnie Earle to appoint a Harriet Miers to the Court?)
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To: clawrence3
Rehnquist and Scalia each had built up more credentials than Miers. They were not stealth nominees.
1,846 posted on 10/27/2005 9:11:36 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: sinkspur

Respect is earned, not hande4d out with your IQ score. She is certainly more educated than some, but that is not the same as being "smart".


1,847 posted on 10/27/2005 9:11:36 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: thoughtomator

Chaffee, Snowe, and Specter are NOT "middle of the road," they are left leaning.


1,848 posted on 10/27/2005 9:11:51 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: xzins

She has very impressive credentials, but I imagine she would not make it out of committee since Specter has already said that both Brown and Owen would fail the "gang of 14"'s test for "extraordinary" if they were offered as a Supreme Court nominee.


1,849 posted on 10/27/2005 9:12:07 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
"Spunky, you are hollering in the house again..."

Sorry about that. I just wanted to be sure someone would see it and let me know where I could read the speech and someone did. :-)

1,850 posted on 10/27/2005 9:12:10 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: Republic of Texas

Now maybe Hugh Hewitt will withdraw


1,851 posted on 10/27/2005 9:12:13 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: N3WBI3
The crowing might be because the 'Anti-Miers' crowd has spent three weeks being told to shut up, get real, and be good little conservative doormats for Bush...

I'll say to you like I said to another who made that same statement. Look at the poll on FR, it's the majority Anti-Miers crowd who has been telling the minority, "let her have her day", that has been told to shut up. Go back over the billions of threads about her.

1,852 posted on 10/27/2005 9:12:57 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: LibertarianInExile

You think Reagan was elected by only the right wing?

Smear me if you need to to make yourself feel like a "real" conservative.


1,853 posted on 10/27/2005 9:13:25 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A true believer in The Constitution welcomes the right of a sitting president to appoint highly-qualified judges, regardless of their political persuasion.

I disagree. I think the GOP capitulated to anti-Constitutional pressure when they voted to confirm a Justice that they suspected would "legislate from the bench."

Liberal presidents should be free to appoint liberals, and conservative presidents should be free to appoint conservatives. The only caveat is that they should be highly qualified.

They can nominate whoever they want. The "caveat" in all cases is that the Judge should follow the Constitution when rendering opinion and judgement from the bench.

1,854 posted on 10/27/2005 9:13:30 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: GarySpFc

The same crowd will be yelling for the next crucifixion if a strong Evangelical is nominated.



This statement is at best stupid and wrong. At worst a lie. At least half the people that were against Harriet WERE evangelicals.


1,855 posted on 10/27/2005 9:14:01 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (Nothing says "Obey me" like a head on a fencepost.)
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To: inquest
You mean like "uber", "reactionary", "Buchananite", "fringer", "elitist"? Names like those?

I've also seen "hyena" and, of course, "three-toed sloth" hurled out there.

1,856 posted on 10/27/2005 9:14:41 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Howlin

And yet the alleged middle-of-the-roaders went balls-to-the-wall for the leftist Specter over the principled conservative Toomey. So any distinction between the two groups is a false one in practical terms.


1,857 posted on 10/27/2005 9:14:45 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Liberals: Get your human shields lined up quick or you'll miss the bombing!)
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To: PhiKapMom

So is your litmus test for a real conservative now somebody who has never been a Democrat, even if they've seen the light?


1,858 posted on 10/27/2005 9:15:28 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: FourtySeven
But I'm allowed to be disappointed. Being disappointed doesn't mean someone doesn't still support someone else.

Yes, of course you're "allowed" to be disappointed. And yes, it's possible to continue supporting this or any president while having areas of disagreement with him. There are a number of policy issues I disagree with GWB on, starting with his proposal for a guest-worker program for illegals. But I will not ever disrespect him either as a man or as president. I will never abandon him. I will never speak of him in the manner I see used on these threads daily.

I recoil from and denounce the vitriol seen on these threads.

1,859 posted on 10/27/2005 9:15:31 AM PDT by Wolfstar (The reactionaries' favorite short list are all judges GWB appointed to the appellate bench.)
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To: GOPJ
"I believe Iraq is the only path to peace."

Thank you for the clarification.

As for the support of his "base", since the "he waved the white flag so he's a coward" crowd are already on this thread, I'll wait for the reaction to his next nominee. Whom I repeat for the thousandth time must accept the nomination. There's a big "if". So alleged Bush supporters who are only angry with him over his choice of Miers stand a good chance of being angry with him for being forced to choose another unpopular nominee if those ahead of him or her withdraw their names from consideration.

Another thing: I did not support Miers OR oppose her. I wanted to wait for the facts to come out and got seriously sick and tired of repeating over and over that we should wait until the HEARINGS before making judgements on her suitability in response to the baseless (at the time) accusations, claims she was only nominated because of her gender and chants of "withdraw this nominee now" which started on the day her nomination was announced. Accusations and baseless charges are hateful, evil things to do to a person. It's like framing someone for a crime they didn't commit.

1,860 posted on 10/27/2005 9:15:34 AM PDT by cake_crumb (They're Not Conservative Enough! Get a Rope so We Can Hang Ourselves!)
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