Yep! If Miers had gone forward, she might have been confirmed, but she wouldn't have made a good impression since she doesn't have any grounding in constitutional law. The Rats could have made her stumble. Once on the court, she might have been okay, but then again she might have charged to the left. At best, she'd be concurring with constitutionalist rulings, while not being an intellectual force. But given her record of flip-flopping I'd bet on her becoming another O'Connor.
*** "Does anyone remember the controversy about Harriett Miers? How many Bush-bots did you hear say that we needed a "stealth" nominee because a more open conservative would not make it?" ***
Did you listen to his answers to the questions?
He is not going in there and supporting devout conservatism, he is coming off as a former conservative who still holds firm on certain principles, but not as firmly as he used to.
He acknowledged a "right to privacy", the "authority of the court to re-interpret the constitution", and gave strong authority to precedent. In other words, he gave the Dems what they want.
I am hoping that he is being soft enough to get approved, then comes back to being a real conservative.
In other words, a stealth conservative.
I was also just thinking about how the Miers fans were saying that intellect above a pretty low threshold doesn't matter, that any lawyer or in fact anyone who has read the Constitution could do that job...and thus that anyone who has read the Constitution would be able to state our case intelligently and get by.
Does anyone seriously believe that Miers performance would have been as steady, serious and unflappable as our man Alito?
Thank goodness that the President saw the light and got her out and Alito in! And thank goodness for the scores who stood up and said no to Miers....including all those who did so here at FR!!!
Ooops.
On the other hand, this Bushbot has a lot of respect for the way the man plays his cards.
Ugh...
What we needed and wanted was either an open philosophical war as a venue to prove the superioirty of conservativism over liberalism (which we did not get in this case) or another public demonstration of Democrat inanities, ineptitude, and sophomoric partisonship (which we DID get in this case, in spades).
It really is amazing how stupid the Democrat senators sound. Biden talked about everything except his favorite lawn fertilizer. I heard that Yale now offers a course in "Stupidity". From what I have seen, these guys must have received PHD's in same. It's just toop bad that the Islamists and the rest of our adversaries get to witness this nonsense on TV. I'm sure they go right out and sharpen their knives when the show is over.
I had almost forgotten what a jerk you were during that entire episode.
Being so wrong will make some of them very bitter.
Good point.