[Cicero]

Just remember most of the people who opposed Miers were the same who opposed Roberts and oppose everything the Preisdent does. They hate him just as much as the kook left does which is why they sound more and more like them every day.

This is very tiresome, and it is obviously untrue. I supported Roberts, and so did most of the people who opposed Miers. Opposition to Roberts by Freepers was mild, and limited. Forty-five percent of the Freepers in this forum said they opposed her in the latest poll, and the number was growing steadily. If the poll had been set a week later, it probably would have been over fifty percent.

Moreover, most of the people who opposed Miers voted for Bush and supported him for the past five years. Nothing that Bush has done in the past five years upset so many of his supporters as the Miers nomination. Thank God he has recognized his mistake.

I have never said that I hated Miers. I have said that I opposed the Miers NOMINATION to the Supreme Court. There is a very big difference. Since she has been good enough to withdraw her candidacy, I sincerely wish her well and am only sorry she was put through such an unpleasant experience. It should never have happened, and I don't fault her for it.

[xzins]

I think this withdrawal injures the president. He is obviously weakened.

It will affect whom he can nominate to SCOTUS. (See post #823)

I'm thinking there will be no Fitzpatrick indictments at all. That's my hope. However, if there are, then the President is even more injured.

This is really negative stuff to have happening when we should already be targeting democratic senate seats in the mid-term elections.

[Spunky]

"Thank God he has recognized his mistake."

Where do you find that he recognized his mistake? It is my understanding she withdrew, he didn't ask her to withdraw.