So am I...
Posted on 10/30/2005 8:05:58 AM PST by quidnunc
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 National Review magazine and The 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 naive, untested first-year law student.
A Texas Republican I spoke with, who knows Miers well, put it best: "I don't know this woman they're talking about."
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Maybe the power boys and girls on the right like the present state of things, true believers practicing the art of political marksmanship. But I'll bet the rest of the country doesn't. As my Texas Republican friend said, "Washington's a sick place."
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So am I...
They did the conservative movement no good with their nastiness.
I couldn't agree more and don't think I'm going to buy any of Ann Coulters books in the near future. Her telling me that since Miers didn't go to Harvard or another Ivy league school she wasn't a good choice really turned me off. Acutually that she didn't go to Harvard gives her a plus in my book.
--- You and the rest of Miers' merry moonbots are trotting all over hither and yon claiming that the opposition to Miers was purely about insults and that it's ruined the GOP and broken Bush, as if any of that is true. ---
Tell me this is an attempt at humor!
No, I think you moonbots are dead serious when you say the opposition to Miers was purely about insults and that it's ruined the GOP and broken Bush. You're definitely funny, because everyone knows better on each count, but I don't think you intend to be. I think your intentions are instead to keep the party divided and distracted until you get another stealth nominee put up that you are convinced is just as RINO as you are.
That won't work, of course, since we are all laughing at your silly 'insult' charges, and the GOP is obviously stronger than it was, since we know now which folks are RINOs and which aren't. And Bush is stronger because he knows that conservatives will work their tails off for him if he appoints a strict constructionist, whereas before he thought they'd roll over for the SCOTUS like they have for so much other pap from Congress.
You continued belligerence and attacks about the past nomination, which is OVER, indicate to me you want to stir up more dissension.
The nomination will be announced within the next two hours. I wonder if you will be happy with this one, or if you will continue to complain.
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Pot, kettle, black.
Sounds familiar....I want, I want, I want wwwwwaaaaaahhhhhhhh I want.
"You continued belligerence and attacks about the past nomination, which is OVER, indicate to me you want to stir up more dissension."
You sound like Hillary and her VRWC claptrap. You and your pals can spin it all you want, but the only time I've addressed Miers is to refute the b.s. you whiners are spewing. I'm not buying what you're selling and neither is anyone else. So peddle your wares somewhere else.
"The nomination will be announced within the next two hours. I wonder if you will be happy with this one, or if you will continue to complain."
If it's not a proven conservative, of course I'll complain, as will many others. But I think one failed nomination is probably Bush's limit. He'll be more circumspect this time. He's a smart guy.
Now I know why the symbol of the Replublican party is an elephant, They can't forget anything.(1987?)
So what do you think of GWB nominating Alito?
You are so right.
Senators were getting PO'ed saying her responses (written and otherwise) were "insulting."
AFA Aunt Harriet having the qualifications of a Sandra Day O'Connor, that is disputable.
We dodged a bullet and the country is grateful.
You gotta dance w/ the one that brung ya. W. has been thumbing his nose at conservative issues for 5+ years now. He still has a virginal veto pen, FGS.
Any "weakening" is self-inflicted.
Not qualified. The comments were about her not being qualified. Not "stupid and uneducated."
Really?
Condescension, ridicule and arrogance was what I saw from the Bushbots and Miers supporters here on FR over this past few weeks.
Time to look in the mirror.
Though I supported HM, I was in the camp that said only Senators had the Constitutional right to reject the nominee. If it happened this way...Senators stating their intentions to vote Nay, all is as it should have been.
That said, I love the Alito nomination.
Moron alert!
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