Posted on 02/02/2006 2:01:37 PM PST by Cindy_Cin
That'll put some junk in her trunk.
"Too bad she makes everything up as she goes"
What other way is there?
Just an unwritten rule that posting anything by Ann Coulter requires the posting of a photo also.
As you can see, several posters have stepped into the breach...
No harm, no foul. Welcome to FreeRepublic!!
HM volunteered to get "Borked" by the likes of Ann.
HM is part of the inner circle that helps pick Bush's judicial nominees.
Her nomination was so bizarre, it was so out of character of Dubya's solid string of originalist judicial nominees.
HM's nomination proved a point to the RINOs that a fuzzy-wuzzy moderate was unacceptable.
HM was nominated to pre-activate the base and unknowingly Ann played right into the role KRove had penciled her in for.
Ann was ignorant of KRove's well laid plan, that's what I mean by "useful idiot".
It just drives me nuts to see so much Ann Coulter butt kissing from people just because they agree with her and she doesn't pull punches. Her inaccuracies are too much to overlook. She's basically the Michael Moore of the right.
Sure, Ann, whatever you say. She tanked Ann, and withdrew, with the disclosure of that speech of Miers to some women's law group implicitly celebrating the placement of abortion in a right to privacy wrapping. Before that, I suspect of majority of Republicans preferred to wait for the hearings to make up their minds, rather than rush to judgment. Face it Ann, you're an incorrigibly hyperbolic flake.
Very nice gallery!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569721/posts (yesterday, twice)
It was a doozy, too. Nominate a woman (because, of course, you must) to replace a woman; make sure that that woman nominee doesn't stand a chance of making it to the hearings; then when the nomination collapses (as expected) the board is cleared for somebody who you really want, regardless of "preferred minority" status.... Voila! Sam Alito, one of the guys everybody wanted in the first place.
The real useful idiot in this whole scheme was Harry Reid, who handed Bush and Rove their foil on a silver platter.
My bad
Ann Coulter and her nasty, over the top personal attacks against Miers didn't sink her. Harriet Miers was sunk by none other than Harriet Miers herself, while she was meeting the senators prior to her confirmation hearings. That is where SCOTUS nominations are made or broken. Contrary to conventional wisdom (or maybe because of conventional wisdom, as CW is almost always dead wrong), it didn't matter what Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and the rest of the democrats thought of Miers; they were going to be against her no matter what, for no other reason than that she was nominated by George W. Bush.
The votes that mattered were the Republican ones, and once Miers started making the rounds of the GOP senators it was quickly discovered that she was a total lightweight and eminently unqualified for the SCOTUS bench. It wasn't until GOP senators approached the White House and told them that there was no way Miers could garner enough support to win confirmation that she was quietly urged to withdraw her name.
To this day I have no idea why Bush nominated her - that to me will be one of the great mysteries of the Bush Administration when discussed in the future, I suppose. I think he simply got stubborn and dug in his heels. At time he was under constant heavy siege over the Katrina response, the Fitzgerald Plamegate non-story, and a whole host of other issues I can't recall right now. It must have very much gotten to be a bunker mentality in the White House, more so than normal, and maybe Bush just decided that he wanted someone who had been right in the trenches along side him and doggone it, that was that.
It is disturbing that Bush had no perception that Miers was a relative airbrain.
That's what part of the plan was - Dubya does have a good poker face...
My post #18 offers a partial explanation.
Do you think it was mere coincidence that Miers stepped down the day after Fitz's presser?
I just have never been comfortable with the theory that Bush used Miers to set up the Alito nomination. Harriet Miers was subjected to weeks of incredibly abusive treatment and name-calling by the likes of Coulter, Laura Ingrahan, NRO, the Judiciary Committe Dims, et. al. And she was and is supposedly a close friend of the President's. That's just a really crappy way to treat a friend, IMO, and for her to voluntarily "take one for the team" like that strains credibilty.
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