CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[ohioWfan]

And I'm simply saying I'm not going to be part of a party that is no different that liberals when it comes to destroying people.

You're not alone in that, Howlin.

A whole lot of us who have been activists are doing a lot of serious thinking about what this party has now done.

Acting like leftists might have been fun at the time, but the destruction of this good woman is going to take its toll on the Republican party AND the Conservative movement.

[TAdams8591]

"You are painting a whole group of people, most of whom attempted to argue their case fairly, with the same broad brush."

No I'm not and you know it

Yes, you are and have been doing so throughout this entire thread.

The Miers nomination was an anomaly and is unlikey to occur again. NONE of the potential nominees have been scared away by what happened to Harriet Miers, LOL! If anything was going to frighten away nominees it is the possibility of the kind of Liberal attacks backed by the MSM upon Bork and Clarence Thomas.

Fortunately, conservative nominees are strong enough to face any challenges the LEFT might throw their way.

[PhiKapMom]

Bush and the GOP aren't going to have my support in 2006 and 2008.

We have been friends on here for a long time and I sincerely hope you don't mean this. If you are sincere then saying it is no better than the doom and gloomers who want to sit out an election and not vote because they didn't get their way.

You don't always win every battle and you have to learn when to pull back to fight another day. Shame some of you cannot see the forest for the trees on both sides. Threatening not to support the GOP in 2006 and 2008? Give me a break!

[Fury]

You write:

"But, as you all say, when is enough enough? I'm not going to be part of a party that personally trashes people just to get their agenda ahead and then tries to justify it by saying that they did it for the good of the country."

Now that Dr. Miers has withdrawn her nomination, I guess commentary is in order. I was very disappointed at how some on the right conducted themselves in regards to the nomination. Ann Coulter made some comments that were clearly over the top concerning not only Miers by President Bush. The same could be said for comments heard on the radio by Laura Ingraham.

We can either act like Libs or we can act like ladies and gentleman. That does not mean we roll over when the going gets tough - it does mean we don't act rudely and impugn the character not only of Harriet Miers but also of President Bush.

[AmishDude]

This would be the easiest of the potential amendments to pass. If the President were behind it, the Dems would get on board. If nothing else, to give an enddate to his nomination.

There are pitfalls: There will be an anticipation when the term comes up. Each presidential term will have at least two nominations. But I think it's better than the alternative.

[ohioWfan]

Ann (middle name insanity) Coulter?? ROFLOL!

It's only morning in America because we have a Godly President.

Certainly not because a bunch of mouthy pencil pushers lost emotional control.

[PhiKapMom]

You are so right -- this was all about a candidate that we knew very little about and what we did find out especially this week was not to our liking. I don't think she was thoroughly vetted either.

[GOPJ]

It's the only kind of brush they have.

Sometimes it seems that way...

[Howlin]

Exactly right. Good post.

[beckett]

The president tried to make his wife happy, but it turned out that making her happy caused him to commit one of the most egregious misjudgements of his presidency and lose the respect of a great many of his supporters. Whether he can get that respect back, given the apparent loss over the past year of his formerly reliable political instincts (his only strong suit), is anybody's guess.

It will help if in the next few weeks he comes up with a credible nominee for the most important nomination he will make in his life.

[Howlin]

Exactly.

[counterpunch]

Luttig referred to abortion rights as "super-stare decisis" in Gilmore in 2000.

[Howlin]

Yeah, but I think it's unwarranted.

I think a lot of it around here is unwarranted.

[ohioWfan]

PhiKap......Harriet Miers deserved to reach the hearings.

She deserved to have her own voice heard.

This is not the kind of party that I have always been proud to be a part of. Howlin's not the only one reconsidering participating in a party that takes part in this kind of lynching.

[Howlin]

Fortunately, conservative nominees are strong enough to face any challenges the LEFT might throw their way.

Miguel Estrada might disagree with you.

[GarySpFc]

Do you honestly believe the judges were not a big deal for the Evangelicals in the last few elections?

[Jokelahoma]

She wasn't denied a thing. Not a thing. She had her hearings coming up. SHE pulled the nomination. She has 51% of the stock, and told the shareholders she didn't want to go through with it. She could easily have ignored this "tiny powerless minority" and gone ahead with her nomination. She chose not to. Even she had to know she wasn't qualified.

Are you then saying that if you see someone about to step off the curb into traffic who is going to be hit by a car, we should all stand by and watch rather than short circuit "the process"? Do we not have an obligation to speak up when someone is running headlong at a brick wall? When they are making a huge mistake? Or would that then be denying them their right to get hit by a car?

I'll ask again. Are we a tiny, powerless minority, or did we deny her her "right"? Which is it?

[Howlin]

Please do not lecture me on what I can and cannot do; I'm sick to death of the backbiting and the out and out lying.

I belonged to a party that was AGAINST judicial activism, but I have lately learned that as long as it is a cause that "we" want, it's fine.

Not for me.

[sinkspur]

A whole lot of us who have been activists are doing a lot of serious thinking about what this party has now done.

"The party" didn't force Miers to withdraw; the fringers with the megaphones did.

They are no more representative of the party than Arlen Specter is.

It is time that we made up our minds to get over this Miers debacle. Let's support the next nominee.

The unappeaseables will do what they always do, which is move on to another policy of Bush's that they can bitch about, and commence firing.

This has been going on for the seven years I've been here, and it will continue.

If you want to get back at somebody, cancel your National Review and Weekly Standard subscriptions, and write to the editors and tell them why.

Drop all the postage-paid reply cards in the middle of your magazines in the mailbox, content in knowing that it'll cost Kristol and Lowry $.37 for every one of them.

[Howlin]

Speaking of Coulter, here's a little something to bookmark:

**Responding to Lauer's observation about W's myriad problems and sagging polls, Ann observed: "he's made one mistake - Harriet Miers. He just has to eliminate that mistake and everything will be fine." ***

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510102/posts?page=2#1

Let's see how long it takes her to put the lie to that.