Posted on 10/27/2005 11:13:19 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Its the senate RINOs and the McCain gang stopping a "pure play" pick here - that's why we got Miers the first time.
let's see McCain lead the charge to vote down one of the women mentioned on this thread. let's play it out.
Luttig also was confirmed by a Dem senate. Anything in his opinions which would give the D's reason to filibuster?
Oh I agree! Bush was the less of two evils. The RATs are flaming Marxists, and Traitor Kerry would have accelerated the destruction that Bush is now doing to our nation.
Thank God Kerry or Gore (in 2000) was not elected!!
This does not ease the pain, however, in the realization that George Bush is NOT a conservative, and has been a disaster of galactic size proportions to the conservative cause.
Absolutely, hell no on these two.
But, if Bush puts up someone like JRB in nomination, McVain and his gang of merrymen had better be ready, because THEY WILL BE PUT ON RECORD for their non-support. I truly believe there will be HELL to pay if they undermine a good solid nominee.
#####I do not see how we are going to get a real conservative through the rino and Dem senate. This was slap in the face to Bush and weakened him considerably.#####
The Miers nomination was itself a sign of weakness. Real liberals never have any trouble sailing through by votes ranging from 97-3 to 100-0. Why shouldn't President Bush be willing to fight for a good conservative?
You're correct that the left will try to block a good nominee, but we can win this **IF** we fight. The President was weakly and meekly trying to avoid a fight, but he shouldn't. He should welcome a fight. He needs a good fight with the far left to rally the base for 2006. If the leftists filibuster, force them to go 24/7 with it. If the RINOs balk, read them the riot act. If the 'Rats on the judiciary committee launch a smear campaign, then remind everyone about Chappaquiddick, Biden's plagiarism, and Chuckie's staff members stealing social security numbers. Fight fire with fire. More accurately, fight dishonest fire with honest fire. President Bush needs to take his case for his nominee over the heads of the Senate and directly to the people.
I'll be the first to admit, I absolutely relish the image of Janice Rogers Brown on national TV, being Borked and disrespected by a bunch of old, fat, white guys lecturing her on affirmative action, women's rights, and prayer.
If I were President Bush, I'd bait that hook in a minute. The Democrats have politically turned themselves into a one-trick pony: they need to win 90% of the African-American vote just to have a prayer of a chance to win a national election.
IMO, allowing a no-nonsense, tough-minded, eloquent, intelligent, devoutly religious conservative African-American to speak her mind will be a political disaster for Democrats. Her values and ideas will resonate; maybe not to elitist, esoteric legal scholars, but across the spectrum of rank-and-file African-American voters. An example is her "Whiter Shade of Pale" speech to the Federalist Society. Agree or disagree with it as you will, but that kind of reasoned rationale will make its mark on more than 10% of those who hear it, IMO.
In the past, the Democrats have been able to hold a 90% coalition together by dubious means - combining wild accusations of the white racist power structure (inflicting AIDS on people, bombing the levees, etc.) with out and out voter fraud in heavily African-American precincts. Winning a serious debate on judicial philosphy in front of millions of Americans is not part of that strategy, IMO.
And the GOP hardly has to win, all they need to do is show up. If the GOP ever figures how to pull another 5-10% from that 90%, it's game, set, and match. An opportunity to do so has fallen in the GOP's lap.
The caveat: She needs to be squeaky clean, because IMO, Democrats will undoubtedly try the scandal route (a la Clarence Thomas) rather than try to hold that 90% together by a serious debate on judicial philosophy.
I was just thinking that the President could nominate Cornyn and then Governor Rick Perry of Texas could appoint Tom Delay to fill out Cornyn's term. Tom Delay in the Senate would be a delight!
Olson is 65. Too old to have much lasting impact.
OK, instead of keen I'll say I'm pissed off at Gonzales being AG......how's that? *~*
He's not only great he'd probably be confirmed easily....and best of all, to the libs' chagrin...he he...he he
Bush I, the youngest of his appointments left on the bench, I believe
My vote goes to Ted, also.
Janice Rogers Brown – she’s qualified, she’s an origionalist.
Democrats say she is out of the mainstream and a judicial activist. They say her decisions and speeches show her to be opposed to government (ie: government control of the economy) abortion (she’s opposed to killing unborn children as a form of birth control) and even hostile to civil rights (she thinks there is a difference between gay anal intercourse and child molestation and that neither of them if done in the privacy of one’s bedroom should be a constitutional right).
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) remarked, "We are not going to turn back by appointing judges to lifetime positions who will bring us and return us back to those days of discrimination and prejudice." Back to the days when gay marriage was a crime and not a constitutional right, to the days when a liberal Senator from Massachusetts could get away with murder and there was no conservative media to turn a light of truth on that darkness; back to the days when a moment of silence wasn’t something that we thought might offend some atheist in the crowd; back to the days when pornography was punishable as a crime and not sponsored by government grants; back to the days when military personnel were honored for the sacrifice they made to protect ordinary Americans. Liberals do not want a judge appointed that will turn the clock back to a civilized time when family values meant a marriage between one man and one woman, when men were not wearing dresses and parading down Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the MSM was not pointing out how beautiful they look.
Janice Rogers Brown will not turn the clock back but she will stop the clock from ticking toward a godless nation like the failed USSR.
There is no such thing as a conservative. There are Republicans, RATS and Lunatics. We know which group you are in.
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