Posted on 01/28/2006 11:24:16 AM PST by RWR8189
You're certainly right about one thing - Sandy O'Connor being unpredictable. One never knew how the Constitution would be interpreted with her. I guess it depended on her mood. We don't need that kind of jurist again.
Someone needs to ask Schmuckie Schumer if the American Bar Association is "Out of the Mainstream."
"Defenders of the Miers nomination--very few in the end--were wrong to say that its withdrawal would weaken the president politically, especially with respect to judicial nominations. They were wrong to warn that someone of Alito's stature and judicial philosophy might not be confirmed, since Senate Democrats would be especially pumped to oppose such a nomination, seeing it as an act of capitulation to the conservatives who had so strongly objected to Miers."
Boy, I still remember Hugh Hewitt and his tribe here wailing and moaning about the tragedy of Miers being lost as a justice and how abominable us mean conservatives were to her. Anybody not think we're better off now? Because I promise you, Miers would have been another O'Connor. Big win for the right here, gang.
The Miers nomination is one of the very few political missteps Buhs has made during his presidency. Luckily for us, he learned from his mistake, and nominated a judge with impeccable character and credentials -- Sam Alito.
You don't even want to go back there with the Republican female voting block. Let sleeping dogs lie.
Even with only one more, the USSC will be totally off everyone's radar for the next 20 years.
This tells us something about the common sense that exists out there in the active minds of heartland America, as opposed to the limited vision of the PP, PAW, NOW, ACLU, NEA, Hollywood types who head the Democratic Party and the puppets who speak for them.
Kerry, Kennedy, Feinstein, Reid, Durbin, Dean et al, as well as their staffers and Party mouthpieces are locked in to a view that does not resonate with most Americans.
Lets also put another stake in the notion that a nominee "replaces" the outgoing justice. There is no tradition of finding a moderate to replace a moderate, or a liberal to replace a liberal. Its an open seat. Simple.
Because you just know that when another lib retires from SCOTUS, the Left we be screaming about preserving the "balance" of the court, or some other such nonsense.
That can't be said too often!
It's important to learn from the past: O'Connor was a mistake. Meiers was a mistake.
Many conservative voters here in PA are mad at Santorum, but we need his vote to confirm judges.
Actually, I have many good things to say about Santorum. His support of Specter isn't one of them, but I'd still vote for Santorum in a primary.
If there was a good conservative running against Santorum in the primary, Ricky would have a very good chance of losing here in PA. He has lost his initial image of being principled, pretty comprehensively.
Some days I think it wasn't a misstep. The conventional wisdom was that Bush had to nominate a female. He did. It got shot down. That freed him to nominate a white male.
I think the writers are quite right to highlight the importance of intellectual quality when the real contest is a contest of ideas. The ideas you have are no more important than your ability to articulate them and defend them with knowledge, logic and sound judgement.
Harriet Miers could well hold 100% of the same "judicial philosophy" views as Alito, but, my personal guess is that, from as much as most of us know about her, she had less that 50% of the intellectual ability to effectively support the arguments for the application of that philosophy.
Cudos to one and all for helping Bush switch to Alito.
Schmuckie's "mainstream" is running dry.
Why, besides his supporting Specter?
If President Bush wants to appoint Phyllis Schlafly to replace Ruth Ginsburg, I would love that, but the field of potential appointees shouldn't be narrowed by race or sex at the expense of getting the best candidate judicial ideology wise.
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