Posted on 10/29/2005 7:17:04 AM PDT by shrinkermd
It's my sense - and tell me if you disagree - that the wounds of the Miers battle are already close to healed. The expectation is that President Bush will appoint one of a dozen well-qualified conservative nominees who will delight his supporters and prove acceptable to a majority (and maybe more than a majority) of the US Senate.
(Excerpt) Read more at frum.nationalreview.com ...
This was Frum's effort just a few days ago (24 October 2005):
"...Some friends of mine and I meanwhile have organized Americans for Better Justice (BetterJustice.com), which has raised money for a national television and radio advertising campaign to urge the withdrawal of the nomination of Harriet Miers. You will be able to see our spots very shortly on the site. They will be airing this week on "Special Report with Brit Hume," "Fox and Friends," the Rush Limbaugh program, the Laura Ingraham program, among other places.
"...The petition formally hosted here at NRO urging Miers to withdraw is also migrating to the BetterJustice site. If you have not signed already, please consider doing so by clicking here to make your voice heard.
Well a week is a long time so the knuckle draggers out in red state land must have forgotten already.
Umm NO David. When you put as much effort into overturning the Judical Fillibuster as you put into borking Miers, then I might listen. You decended into the political gutter, David, out of personal malice towards Miers. Conservatives are NOT going to forget that too quickly. We may forgive you eventually, but it will not be any time soon.
What would you have Frum do? Should he gloat over his "victory", pouring salt in the wounds of Miers supporters?
I pray we have a strong conservative like Luttig or McConnell nominated. However, I will never forget the over the top histronics of Frum, Coulter, and Ingram.
David Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Frum is what some may describe as a "trans-national" citizen. He remains involved in political activities in both the United States and Canada, and his editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers.
He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools, followed by Yale University in 1982 and from Harvard Law School in 1987. The New York Times called his first book, Dead Right "...the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement."
Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Frum was appointed to a position within the White House. Still a Canadian citizen, he was one of the few foreign nationals working within the Bush White House. He served as Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. In 2002, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
In January 2003, he released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. Frum is widely cited as having authored the phrase "axis of evil," which he discusses in his book. As the title suggests, Frum also discusses how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President. Frum writes, "George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man."
Frum's latest book An End to Evil, was co-written with Richard Perle. It provided a spirited defense of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and advocated regime change in Iran and Syria. Furthermore, it called for a tougher policy with North Korea, as well as advocated the US take a tough stance against Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations in order to "win the war on terror" (the book's by-line). The book received some negative reviews, with some claiming that it only served to further isolate America in the world's eyes. Fareed Zakaria criticised it heavily in a New York Times column, taking a jibe at the authors by suggesting, "To transform the world, you do actually need to engage in it."
Frum is the son of Barbara Frum (1937-1992), who was one of Canada's most respected and influential journalists and was widely thought to have liberal views. His father, Murray Frum is a real estate developer. David Frum is married to writer Danielle Crittenden.
Frum has written for The Weekly Standard, Forbes magazine, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and has recently returned as a regular columnist for Canada's National Post.
Frum is Jewish and is considered to be a neo-conservative.
Frum strongly supported John Roberts, George W. Bush's nominee for Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. However, like many conservatives, he opposed the nomination of Harriett Miers for the Supreme Court, on the grounds that she was insuffiently qualified for the post, as well as insufficently conservative.
Since May 2005, Frum has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
Just be quite for a while an let the wounds heal. A smart victor in politics knows better then this. Coming around now and acting like what he did was no big deal IS pouring salt in the wounds.
Fair enough - that's a reasonable expectation.
I agree with your sentiments.
Not trying to start a fight here - but I'm conservative. And I thought the Miers nomination was bad. And I'm happy that it is over. And I am ready to move on.
If only others were able to write as you. Able to diasagree without tearing down your opponent as a number have done. Conservatives can disagree but lets keep within certain boundaries.
It was not a matter of supporting Miers that upset most in the pro-Miers crowd, but that "the process" was Borked.
Would you rather nail Frum or work together to get a strong conservative on the court?
I agree. And I don't know how the rest of you can be so angry after Miers 93 speech surfaced. I think we dodged a bullet thanks to the efforts of Frum,Coulter,Krauthammer,Ingram,Limbaugh,ect.
Confirmation would result in Ms. Miers sitting on the court for the next 20 years. Given what was learned about Miers over the last several weeks is that a scenario you're comfortable with?
Rejection by the Senate would have been far more politically damaging to the President than withdrawl. Republicans voting down a Republican President's nominee? That sounds just super, especially to the rabid left.
Who's "we"? You and the mouse in your pocket?
It was imperative that political pundits insert themselves into a Constitutional process to prevent an elected President from having his Supreme Court nominee receive an up or down vote by 100 elected Senators? It was imperative that we now forever lose the correct argument that every nominee is entitled to an up or down vote in the senate? I disagree.
"We" just might be everyone BUT the 3500 or so people who actually bothered to sign Frum's ridiculous petition. Are you telling me that you admire someone who thinks starting a petition is an effective means of influencing opinion? I guess I missed his petition on CFR, immigration, congressional spending and any number of worthy issues.
Frum sucks. He's about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake.
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