Remember when Bush tried to appoint Harriet Meiers? The left was triumphant they sank a SCOTUS nomination, but her being replaced by Alito is the best thing to have happened for conservatives in the last 20 years.
“Remember when Bush tried to appoint Harriet Meiers? The left was triumphant they sank a SCOTUS nomination, but her being replaced by Alito is the best thing to have happened for conservatives in the last 20 years.”
Yes. I remember that era. I was advocating against Harriet. To me it was another point in GW Bush’s administration where he took personal loyalty too far.
I felt he was that way with Rumsfield as well, but in that I am not sure how factually accurate were my impressions of Rumsfield at the time - the fog of ALL the media.
And imagine how much better off we'd be now if Trump's base demanded actual PROVEN conservatives on SCOTUS instead of blindly slobbering all over Gorsuch and Kavanaugh just because Trump nominated them...