Conservatives wouldn't even give Miers a chance

Dallas Morning News ^ | 10/28/2005 | William McKenzie

[sinkspur]

One thing's for certain about this Harriet Miers mess: The conservative movement can never, ever play the Bork card again. No more whining about liberals tarring-and-feathering Robert Bork in his 1987 Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

For two decades, conservative activists have droned on about their spiritual leader's defeat in the Senate. They carry him around on their shoulders as proof of how the establishment's out to get them.

Well, forget that nonsense. No more of that cry-babying, not after what conservatives like writer David Frum and organizations like Concerned Women of America – using the National Review and Wall Street Journal opinion-page megaphones – have done to Harriet Miers in two short weeks.

They've turned a woman whose credentials for the Supreme Court matched or outpaced those of William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor into the image of a naïve, untested first-year law student.

A Texas Republican I spoke with this week, who knows Ms. Miers well, put it best: "I don't know this woman they're talking about."

[Personal Responsibility]

This author has no clue as to the differences between Bork's situation and Miers's.

[sinkspur]

If Bork had shaved off that stupid beard, so that he didn't look like Simon Legree, he might have had a better chance.

But, with his 2nd amendment views, it was for the best that Bork did not make it to the Supreme Court.

[Agent Smith]

He is an idiot, pure and simple.

[The Old Hoosier]

Well cry me a river.

I love watching liberals try to understand this situation. Only a very few of them get it.

[GingisK]

The conservative movement can never, ever play the Bork card again.

Sure we can. I don't recall any limits placed on this sort of thing.

[MCCRon58]

Just read his previous column about how Bush should fight the Right in order to win back the GOP.

Methinks yon columnist has not our best interests at heart, eh?

[frogjerk]

I don't think Miers got fair treatment and I believe she should be respected for taking some of the more outrageous charges against her (possible Lesbian, left-wing activist, stupid and the like)but lets get on with the next nomination.

Unfortunately, now everyone has to moan and complain on how bad the conservatives in the GOP are or how bad the Miers pick was in the first place.

[Sometimes A River]

After reading what Miers has had to say in the past, I wouldn't even consider her qualified to be a high school English teacher, much less a Supreme Court justice.

Her nomination was a truly bizarre move by Pres. Bush.

[Piquaboy]

Waaah! One thing about it, conservatives stick together, no matter what, and the liberals will never understand it.

[Pylot]

Its funny you say that, I heard him on FOX this am and I was thinking the exact same thing. Not that he deserved what happened, just that he looked flat out goofy.

[sinkspur]

I don't think Miers got fair treatment and I believe she should be respected for taking some of the more outrageous charges against her

The Dallas Morning News is FULL of this Harriett Miers story, with lots of personal tributes to her from people that know her.

There is a sense among some of the local columnists that this will cause some souring of attitudes toward the "far right" by Dallas conservatives. Several are quoted as saying that Miers was trashed by a concerted campaign to make her look like a dope.

David Frum better not let the sun set on him in Dallas, Texas.

[NapkinUser]

It's over. Time to move on. Another Souter was avoided.

Flashbunny: can you use your ping list in this thread?

[Hendrix]

The Left, as shown by this article, is furious that the conservatives no longer "just sit back and take it" like we did for decades while the Left tried to take over our country. Those old days are gone lefties.

[trisham]

lets get on with the next nomination.

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Yes. The only thing worse than seeing the demonization of Miers has been the smugness of those who participated now that she has withdrawn. It's time to move forward.

[conservativecorner]

Really?

1. We didn't give to demoncrats.

2. We didn't write about self determination in the 1990's where she explicitly mentions social issues that are important to conservatives.

3. We didn't call anyone a sexist or elitist. Anyone calling regular folks these things is ridiculous. Go to DC if you want to see that first hand.

4. We didn't screw up her meetings with the senators of both parties. She couldn't even answer constitutional law questions.

I could go on, but why bother with an author that doesn't have a clue.

[manwiththehands]

All I needed to know about Ms. Miers' qualifications I learned yesterday: The liberals/MSM/'Rats are crying "FOUL!" over her withdrawal and blaming the "extreme right wing".

[linkinpunk]

Some around here are mad that Bush didn't appoint a "poke in your eye" nominee like Bork.

But they are forgetting that Bork was never confirmed.

[David Isaac]

We are not the target audience for this particular piece. We know what happened. He is trying to spin what happened for those people who rely on the MSM for the information to formulate teir opinions.

The Dems started, within minutes of Miers' withdrawing, saying that she was a victim of the far right. They will convince some people, even though 40 percent of the voters would believe anything they say, irregardless.

[Hendrix]

"They've turned a woman whose credentials for the Supreme Court matched or outpaced those of William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor into the image of a naïve, untested first-year law student."

It wasn't her legal qualifications. It was that she is NOT nor has she ever been a conservative, and her past history clearly shows that she is not a conservative. Heck, she was a democrat just a few years ago and she voted like a liberal while she was on the Dallas city counsel. I think Miers is very confused (or probably does not have a clear ideology) about her political ideology. That is very dangerous for a SCJ.