Posted on 11/02/2005 3:11:30 PM PST by xsysmgr
Hmmmm....
Damn, they finally figured out his strategery...
This journalist obviously reads DU, LOL, because that is exactly what they think...Bush planned it all along.
Maybe. It won't work again.
"Bush planned it all along."
No way. The DUmmies really think Chimpy McHitlerburton pulled this off? Last I checked, they claimed he had the brain of an amoeba. How can this be? /sarcasm
"This journalist obviously reads DU, LOL, because that is exactly what they think...Bush planned it all along."
DU, the only place in the world where Bush can be a dumb Shrubby McChimp and an evil super-genius at the same time.
Bush also got to see who else in movement conservatism will be loyal to a fault, as well -- that turns out to be the "Truly-Committed-Christian" Conservative base.
And Bush was willing to spend political capital to learn exactly who his friends are too. The establishment conservative talking heads had their own agenda, and many showed their true colors when it came to trusting his judgment. Bush is assured of who it is that will truly stick with him through thick and thin.
In the end I suspect he is not surprised.
He rope-a-doped his hangers-on the same way he does the libs.
Strategery = Bush gets his way when everyone else least expects it.
"DU, the only place in the world where Bush can be a dumb Shrubby McChimp and an evil super-genius at the same time."
LOL!
Hehe, they are all like Dr. Strangelove, trying to supress the Nazi salute...the inner conflict boils close to the surface...their eyes dart from side to side...we begin to hear them singing "Daisy" a la "2001-A Space Odyssey"...they look like...HOWARD DEAN!
There's a lot of wild speculation in this article, but this point is absolutely correct.
"many showed their true colors when it came to trusting his judgment"
You posit that Miers willingly "took the arrows" meaning that you agree that her nomination was a ploy.
But, you then condemn pundits and others, who according to you "showed their true colors when it came to trusting his judgment."
Had everyone trusted his judgement, the Miers nomination, that you consider a ploy, would have gone through.
And you still consider this a good thing? Amazing.
The ROVEEEEEEEEEEE strikes again...damn he's gooooooood!!! :)
As the article itself implies, the strategy was to withdraw her all along in order to pave the way for Alito.
That "conservatives" couldn't trust Bush's judgment on this task, inspite of every other one of his other supurb judicial appointments for lower courts, says more about the fairweather friends he has among the ranks of those that call themselves conservatives.
He confirmed in his mind who his real allies are now, and those who are loyal and trust his judgment without having to necessarily understand it right away. As the strategy goes, he gets what he wants.
Like Reagan at Reykjavik in 1987, many conservatives didn't understand Reagan's strategy. At the time Richard Viguerie, Pat Buchanan, Howard Philips all wrote Reagan off literally using the terms "lame-duck," and "useful idiot." Reagan also demonstrated that there are those in the conservative camp who would underestimate him about as bad as the libs do.
In that way Bush is very Reaganesque, actually.
All those conservative talking heads will now line up to try to take credit for supposedly pursuading Bush to dump Miers, but like Reagan, Bush doesn't care who takes the credit for conservative successes, so long as the ball gets pushed down the field and a goal is scored.
Bush is 10 steps ahead of the glory hogs of the right and the left and his strategy is what it is: a master stroke of genius.
You don't know Bush very well. He would NEVER put a trusted friend of 13 years out front, in a very public way, just so he could pull the rug out from underneath her.
That's not the way Bush operates. He is neither cynical nor cruel.
Promoting Scalia to Chief, replacing O'Connor with Roberts, and selecting a solid proven conservative (Alito) to fill the open seat would have definitely moved the court more to the right. This was a major reason why I voted for Bush.
I agree. I believe that Miers was a part of formulating the strategy from the start. I don't think she felt put off by the task at all, loyally stepped to the plate to do her part when and where she was needed, and can now return to vetting future excellent court nominees like before. Nothing cruel about that at all.
One has to have a thick skin to survive in politics. She's got it for sure, as her own rise to power attests.
Don't confuse strategy with cynicism. Bush played the game, faked the pass, Miers took the tackle, and Alito the wide receiver will run it straight to the goal. That's strategic team work, not cynicism.
LOL!
Genius and Dumb. Trustworthy and Misleading.
He's everything to everyone, I guess.
Wasn't she the person who was directing the search for nominees? Maybe SHE suggested this strategy, figuring that in three years, when President Bush leaves office, Le Affaire Meirs will be but a footnote to his Presidency, and she can return to her high powered career in Texas.
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