CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[TAdams8591]

"I'm going to repeat for the very last time that I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO OBJECTED TO THIS NOMINATION. What I have had problems with are the ruthless attacks on her person and her character, and on the President as well."

That is fair. But most who opposed her were not in that category. It is difficult to object to a nominee because in comparison to other candidates her Judicial, Constitutional, and Conservative credentials are lacking, without the appearance of making personal attacks.

[Mo1]

BTW .. are you listening to Rush and the Clips of the Dem comments

That is what the MSM will be showing on the newtworks

[AmishDude]

The laws belong to the people...? Experts in Con Law aren't "people"? Scalia and Thomas aren't "people"?

No they are not. They are precisely not "the people". They are the government, the elite, the rulers.

Stephen Breyer used the same argument as you to justify his appeal to foreign law and to reject originalism. He was "the people" deciding for all of us.

The Supreme Court did not get this wacky when its members were often chosen from the ranks of retired Senators.

[clawrence3]

Well, I would know how I would judge. I suspect you would as well. Are you seriously suggesting Miers didn't know that too?

[George W. Bush]

The Christian camp, like me. It's always been us vs them and we should opt for one of us or we'll be planting the seed for the destruction of our culture and country and our children.

I've been hearing this talk.

I think there may be an effort to divide Roman Catholics from non-Catholics on the Religious Right and to sow considerable ill-will among both groups toward neoconservative (largely Jewish) opinion leaders as well.

I think there is a considerable variety of religious background in both pro- and anti-Miers factions.

Personally, I'm a Baptist. I simply don't see how this is somehow prejudiced against evangelicals. And if it were, it would be solely because the president himself made such an issue of her evangelical background. That was a very unwise way for him to play hardball via his doppelgangers, Dobson and Robertson. Fortunately, neither CWA or Eagle Forum fell for that shabby trick to divide conservatives.

[Siena Dreaming]

Everyone has the same God?

OK...uh...whatever.

[nyconse]

a competent nominee who will be filibustered...for sure. We probably won't have a new justice until after the elections now. Great, Sandra will hear some important cases. Be careful what you wish for....

[2rightsleftcoast]

Yes, that would be great. I think he would be wonderful.

[Cboldt]

And, you know how much I care about YOU.

Indeed.

[AmishDude]

Well, I don't think she's the brightest bulb in the room either, but that in and of itself did not disqualify her in my view.

Her undergrad degree was in mathematics. Please list all the math courses you took along with the grades you received.

I'll wait.

[rcocean]

Why is it dumb?

[adam_az]

" That is not how the hard working Evangelicals are going to see it. There has not been an Evangelical nominated to SCOTUS since 1930, and we do represent a large percentage of the population. Currently we have 4 Catholics on the court, and that does not go unnoticed. Finally, those who are committed Evangelicals and familiar with the churches of Christ/Christian Churches are going to laugh in your face at the mention of her being pro-choice or liberal."

What's your argument, that it's "your turn" to get a nominee of your particular faith to the SCOTUS? How about Jimmy Carter himself? This nominee was pretty much Carter in a dress. I could personally give a 'rats ass if the nominee is a druid, so long as they faithfully interpret the intentions of the authors of the constitution.

[flashbunny]

"We never even got to hear the woman's opinions."

If you really believe that, then you haven't read any of her speeches or writings.

[Warren_Piece]

If he is nominated, then Bush proves himself to be a dishonorable, revenge-filled, spiteful man, who would rather "get back" at his base than move a Conservative agenda forward..

Have you ever been humiliated, rightly or wrongly? Did you not say, do, or think things that were based solely on the emotion of humiliation? Are you not human?

You're asking Bush to be a robot. He's a human being, and human beings can do some strange things when they've been humiliated.

[JeffAtlanta]

That is what the MSM will be showing on the newtworks

So what? The left and the MSM bash Bush, conservatives and Republicans all the time.

If Bush didn't want this situation, he shouldn't have nominated her to begin with.

[flashbunny]

" I opposed Mires, but I've backed President Bush for years. And I backed Roberts. You're painting with too broad a brush.."

It's the only kind of brush they have.

[TAdams8591]

"It's sad isn't it. We have many in our base that are just as sucked into a personality cult as the left does."

It's downright depressing.

[xzins]

He's darned if he does, darned if he doesn't.

Sadly, you are exactly right.

I fear that we just lost a heart-Christian off of the Supreme Court.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Why is it dumb?

That's for you to figure out.

[clawrence3]

Exactly! I hope Miers issues a press release saying how she would have voted on every 5-4 O'Connor swing decision that comes out this term.