Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
Dang, ex-snook! I thought that your reply would be something we could finally both agree with. But I got a .5 out of it. I thank you for agreeing with me that, yes, there are some even on the Right who think that having the issue is more important than a solution. Then it breaks when you attack the GOP, as usual.
Well, I'll look at it like this: It's on the green, but it's gonna be a long putt from there. Having a .5 is better than nothing.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
Ann Coulter rants about whatever upsets her at the moment. Usually her pen is pointed away from Republicans, but this time Harriet caught her eye. While some of her literary flair might have been over the top (that's her style), Coulter was absolutely correct in her opinion that she (Coulter) was more qualified than Miers.
As for your contention that the anti-Miers crowd (of which I was proudly a part) is elitist, I simply disagree. I'd just say that we were more realistic about what qualifications are necessary to serve on the Supreme Court. Like Coulter, I attended a top law school, did well, made the law review, and clerked for a federal appellate judge. That said, I also have two friends who clerked for the Supremes, and their legal reasoning skills and abilities are so far beyond mine that I find it scary and depressing. So go ahead and delude yourself with the belief thinking that anyone who can read the Constitution is smart enough to serve successfully as an associate justice. It ain't true.
A much stronger argument can be made that the Miers' supporters were anti-intellectual than that the anti-Miers' folks were elitist.
She would not have withdrawn had the White House known she was going to be confirmed - they can count Senate votes with the best of them - and there were more than a few RINOs against Miers.
Hopefully Bush will nominate a conservative with the stamina, solid constitutional values, and capabilities to stand up to and outwit the activists justices on SCOTUS.
We need to fight tooth an nail for such a justice. This is one battle we can't lose to the Democrats.
Don't skirt around the issue because you don't want to see what you and others on here have been reduced too. She deserved to be heard and voted on, up or down. Period.
An ubercon is someone who thinks he's a conservative and on the right, but he's so far around the curve that he agrees with the left more than he agrees with the vast majority of conservatives.
He believes the NYTimes if they bash Bush. He believes in personal freedom at the expense of personal responsibility.
And he's a nasty, angry, powerless individual, who exerts his only sense of power at a typewriter sitting in his home.
(I do NOT put anyone who opposed Miers in this category).
There is that "crony" word.....I see you have been getting your talking points from the dems as well....ugh..
Also...please, never, ever refer to another freeper as "cupcake" again. Have some class for goodness sake.
If you doubt the degree of the left's fear of JRB, check out some of their sites today. Interesting new tactic though..People for American Way and Save Our Courts websites are obviously made by the same designer. Content is also nearly identical.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12566
http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/nominees/brown.html
http://www.now.org/issues/judicial/060305-TruthBrown.html
At least NOW, who uses the same recycled character assassination, has the decency to hire their own web designer. I keep thinking of two hairy legged, left-ette web designers sitting in their "life-partner" pad thinking of new names for anti-JRB sites. Maybe we'll find out the entire left is the same person? Or maybe Teddy Kennedy (the other white meat) ate the entire moderate left movement? Anyone seen Joe Lieberman lately????
Thanks.
Oh, really? Bushbot? Kool aid drinkers? What are those and similar epithets designed to do except to marginalize and silence?
Show me one argument supported by the majority of the nomination's opposition that is unfair.
Most of you claimed she was not qualified. In fact, her qualifications are comparable to many former SCOTUS justices. As far as the Constitution is concerned, she is qualified. When you folks yammered about qualifications, what you were really saying is that she didn't have a public record from which you could draw reassurance that she would vote and write opinions on the court the way you demand.
But your statement is outrageous - why should we have supported your candidate when it was always plain and clear that you had no intention of supporting ours?
Ah...that's where you don't yet recognize the damage you've done. I am a life-long Republican. Never voted for a Dem. Never will. I have voted for a long, long list of conservative Republicans because they tend to represent my policial point of view. I share many, if not most of the same political positions as does your crowd. It is your tactics, your vitriol, your piling on, your dismissiveness of those of us who admire and support GWB that has alienated me. Permanently.
You people scare me as much as the hard Left does.
I wish we could get good, strong conservatives on the court without a fight. I want the court to be changed and go in a conservative direction. For me that's what it's all about, it's not about the fight.
But if a fight is what it is going to take to do it, then it can't be avoided and must be done.
I would rather the Republicans plod ahead slowly and get the job accomplished in the end.
I know conservatives want it tomorrow or next week but that is an immature mindset. It will be accomplished over time and I'm glad Pres. Bush operates this way.
I think I'll pull out that old Pat Metheny CD and chill instead.
Pray Bush does not put up Gonzales as retribution....
Pray he puts up a good, solid conservative.
Hear, hear....you go, OWF....great post!
I was just listening to Rush, and one of the callers mentioned that the rejection of Miers by the conservatives has driven a deep divide between the Christians and conservatives. Rush agreed, and said he tried to tell the conservatives this was going to happen. I, likewise, tried to tell the anti-Miers group this was going to happen, and they laughed at me. Believe me when I say this has created a big divide between the conservatives and Evangelical Christians.
I do not believe Ms. Coulter was more qualified than Miers, and I don't think she ever wrote that either - didn't Coulter say something like "Miers is qualified to be on the SCOTUS like I am qualified to be a sumo wrestler"?
Keep going. Pretty soon we'll all see what you're made of.
President Bush is. And Miers may very well be as well.
Look at the bright side - so far, no one's ever gotten a piece of vertebra stuck in their teeth ...
... so, we've got that going for us.
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