[caryatid]

The Miers withdrawal gives Mr Bush a chance to relaunch his presidency.

In his dreams ...

[Cold Heat]

The Democrats would have a hard time in the court of public opinion if they now took exception to someone who was, whatever their judicial intentions, at least smart, capable and experienced. They wouldn’t want the potential opprobrium of throwing out a second nominee.

While not forced to comment on this quote, I must say it is the naive thing I have read in the last ten minutes.

[liliesgrandpa]

It’s time that Bush gets rid of all his advisers that told him to be so liberal in the first place. If Rove was the one who advised him to sign all the pork bills, the drug bill, increase the size of government, etc, maybe he needs new blood in there.

[ZULU]

I really doubt Rove was thinking along these lines.

I doubt Rove is the kind of conservative ideologue we would like to see guiding Bush. I think Rove's plan was to try to get a popular consensus candidate approved who would strenghthen Bush's popularity with the center and liberals - an idle idiotic dream. Bush, a man who is manifestly a ture moderate and not a conservative, is destested by the left and nothing he does will ever please them so he should stop trying.

If Rove gets shoved out of office in a scandal - so much the better. I don't believe he is ideologically in tune with most of us at all and couldn't care less about conservatives - especially now when Bush no longer needs us to get re-elected. Now Rove fancies himself playing to the future audience of Americans to come with Bush as some great political healer.

There is a cultural war on in America and its getting more bitter with time. The left is becoming more extreme and more dedicted to destroying all traditional values in America. They are using the courts as well as the mainstream media to do this.

We need a President who is willing to attack the left, destroy their credibility with those gulliable Americans who follow them and drive the left into the same dustpan of history that Reagan directed the Evil Empire into. If this is not done and done soon, America as we all knew and loved it will soon cease to exist.

Clearly. Bush is not that man, and I see no one on the horizon yet on the right thinking that way.

[loveliberty2]

The pundits who stooped to the level of Far Left tactics in the past few weeks did not do honor to conservatism. Ends do not justify means, and their previous claims that the President's nominee "deserved" the right to a vote will come back to haunt them.

However, the Republican Senators are now placed in a position of deciding whether they will defend the principles of the Founders' Constitution and back a strong conservative nominee, or whether they will be cowered by the threats of Durbin, Reid, et al.

The Far Left adheres to the "living constitution" school, meaning that, as one liberal university professor proudly boasted a few years ago, "what we have had is a 'sitting constitutional convention.'"

There is no middle ground between liberty and tyranny, and that is what this is about.

Of the Constitution, James Madison observed that, ". . . every word. . . decides a question between power and liberty. . . ."

If future generations are to enjoy the liberty previous generations considered their birthright, and for which so many have sacrificed their lives, then now is the time for naming Supreme Court justices who will limit the Court to interpreting the Constitution. If changes are to be made, the Constitution has prescribed the only legitimate method by which they may be made--by act of "the People" themselves through the Amendment Process.

[DCPatriot]

Mr. Gerald Baker....put down the crack pipe and back away slowly!

[wagglebee]

This is the most brilliant theory I've heard!