Hugh, Hugh, Hugh. You need to have the cajones to admit you were wrong. I did. ("She Has Spoken . . . And I Was Wrong," http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509837/posts). There is a WORLD of difference between getting filibustered or stopped by a MINORITY of the opposing party without a floor vote and withdrawing yourself under pressure from the MAJORITY when it is clear you didn't have the goods.
Now, come on Hugh. Be a man. It's easy: "I---Was---Wrong."
The right's embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left - exaggeration, invective, anonymous sources, an unbroken stream of new charges, television advertisements paid for by secret sources - will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around.Like it or not, Hewitt is exactly right here.
The next time the Democrats beat the hell out of one ours with personal attacks, we will be hypocrites if we call them on it.