Ann Coulter just took apart SCOTUS nominee on the Mike Rosen show (My report)

Ann Coulter's appearance on the Mike Rosen show, 850am KOA ^ | This morning, Mon. Oct. 4th | Report from Mike Rosen show

[ajolympian2004]

Ann Coulter just took apart President Bush's SCOTUS nominee on the air during her appearance on the Mike Rosen show here in Denver on 850am KOA. She called for listeners to write their senators to oppose the nomination. Wish you could have heard it!

Ann said - "Totally unqualified", called Judge Roberts "a 'dream' candidate in light of this nomination", mentioned "cronyism" over and over. Much more that I'm trying to digest. I called the station to see if they saved the audio, but no luck on that. Mike Rosen was just about speechless as Ann went on and on about why this was a lousy choice.

I agree with Ann. Huge mistake and missed opportunity.

Ann's choice, Janice Rodgers-Brown. Not enough intestinal fortitude in the White House to go with that choice.

Can't wait for Ann's column on this nomination later this week.

[higgmeister]

Dukakis hasn't been seen or heard from since his tank ride:

That was a Tank! I thought he was heading out to visit the Russians on Mir!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Anyone who calls a nominee a "Jesus Freak" has some issues. It reeks of envy, arrogance, and elitism.

[LibWrangler]

Ann Coulter believes that President Bush is nominating a Supreme Court justice to exact revenge on those who did not support his earlier nominee.


President Bush, the "spiteful" president?

You've seen "The Terminator"! You've read about "The Governator"! Now get ready for:

GW Bush as "The NOMINATOR"!

[Blessed]

>Corporate law, never been on the bench, and was a demonrat in the '80s. She is definitely not the best athlete available.<

Their are as many or more corporate law case that come before the court as crimnal cases.

[Mo1]

What? Reid is saying Miers is bad? No! Harry is for her--he, apparently, is the one who recommended her to Bush.

Apparently FNC reported early today that Harry's staff is not happy with him about recommending her

Just wait till NARL and the NOW gals catch up with him

Harry better real fast *L*

[JFC]

I hope your right, because what I have seen on here is eating of our own, along with those Talk Show hosts. I support my President and Miers, until I hear something that makes me think otherwise. Ann Coulter is just a loud mouth who thinks she is better than everyone else. I used to like her but no more...

[txrangerette]

We shall see, about your uninformed, premature claim that she is not good enough for the Court. We shall see. I'm looking forward to it.

[LibWrangler]

You're right. All is lost. This is the worst thing to ever happen. Etc.

[goldstategop]

I think much of the criticism of Ann comes from placing loyalty to the President and the party above conservative principle. With me, its the reverse. Its not the best choice the President could have made and the message it sends to young conservatives is, never have a thoughtful opinion, never write an op-ed, never be proud of being a conservative since you will never get confirmed by Congress. I call that a lack of principle.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[TAdams8591]

Very few conservatives had long knives out for Thomas and most, like myself, strongly supported him. We hated what the Liberals attempted to do to him through Anita Hill.

I took a day off from work and went to the hearings and visited the offices of several Senators, including some who were NOT in my home state to urge them to vote for Thomas.

[Mo1]

They liked her better when she only criticized Democrats....

I don't dislike Ann

I just want to hear a reasonable explaination of why Meirs is a bad choice other then "we don't know anything about her"

That is not a reason

How are we suppose to learn anything if we don't give her a chance to speak???

[daviscupper]

A filibuster would be great. Then Bill Frist would have to step up to the plate and invoke the nuclear option. The RINOS would have to stand up and vote one way or another. If they vote to uphold the filibuster by not changing the rules they will be on record for denying the President his choice of a conservative candidate. Some of the RINOS might survive the next election but not all of them would. Conservatives would get their pound of flesh in the next election.

I still have a hard time trying to figure out why Dubya did not nominate Janice Rogers Brown! On so many different levels she would have been fantastic. Democrats and RINOS would have been forced to beat up on an articulate, intelligent, attractive, black female whose parents were sharecroppers. Why did you cave-in Dubya?

[unseen]

This is a government by the people for the people. the day we take anything our government says at face value is the day we lose our freedoms. I will take Reagan's approach "trust but verify" we have nothing to verify with all we have is trust. that and $5.00 might buy you a coffee

[andyk]

Yes, I forgot how simple constitutional law was. Lord knows why all those silly people spend all the money and time attending law school.

I'm astounded that you're unable to understand the US Constitution. People do not attend law school in order to understand the US Constitution. If you think they do, then there's no surprise that we're not able to discuss this issue on the same level.

Let me ask you this: using your rationale above why not nominate me. I guess I'm just as qualified as anyone. Better yet, let's nominate Laura Bush. I mean she's a woman - which seems to have been the main criterion here, and we think she'd vote the right way.

Why not nominate you? Because you think only a subset of lawyers, ordained by their law schools are capable of understanding the US Constitution, and applying it to laws that are challenged. You clearly are not worthy of the court; it would be asinine to nominate you. You can take that "nominate a woman" BS elsewhere.

I cannot believe that you think I need a lawyer to tell me what the Constitution means. I guarantee you that a plumber understands the phrase "Congress shall make no law" a lot better than your liberal friends of the bar, who discover emanations and penumbras.

"Oh, mighty black robed thugs! Please tell us what our rights are!!"

[k2blader]

So Miers may have had a harder time getting into law school than white males.

So what??

It's not like this qualifies her for SCOTUS.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I don't think I'm being hysterical.

This nominee is a clunker, and the people here who reflexively support everything President Bush does-regardless of the consequences of these policies-haven't demonstrated that my initial reaction was wrong.

You can provide all the rationalizations you want, it won't alter the fact that Miers is a laughable selection.

[k2blader]

Surely you jest.

"We don't know anything about her" is a much better reason than "Just trust me."

[Labyrinthos]

I wonder if Ann will now go after Clarence Thomas, the justice she has talked about cloning. Because Thomas was not the most qualified for the position in 1991. And was considered a legal lightweight, who only got the spot because he was filling the "black seat". And shudder he actually worked in 41's administration at the time.

Why stop with Judge Thomas? She also needs to go after the late Chief Justice Rehnquist, whose only judicial experience at the time of his nomination was a one year stint as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson in 1951-1952. He was then in private practice in Arizona from 1952 until 1969, when he took a job in the Nixon administration as Assistant Attorney General, in the Office of Legal Counsel. He served in that capacity until 1971 when he was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice. To the best of my knowledge, Judge Rehnquist was an average attorney at a politically connected firm in Phoenix. He never argued a case before the United States Supreme Court as an attorney, and to the best of my knowledge, he didn't brief or argue a lot of appeals of any kind in the State or Federal system. From the best I can tell, Rehnquist's primary qualification to serve on the SCOTUS was his close relationship with Barry Goldwater. The parallels between Rehnquist and Miers ought to be obvious even to Anne Coulter. Rehnquist turned out to be a steady conservative pragmatist, who served us well for nearly 35 years. I expect the same from Miers. Ann Coulter -- stfu.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

She wasn't referring to her as a "Jesus-freak."

She was ridiculing the pathetic rationale that her supporters have been offering in her defense.

Namely, that she is a good nominee because she is a good Christian.

Her point was that there are millions of good, Pentecostal Christians who would have been preferable to Ms. Miers.

[AmericaUnited]

If you do not stand and fight for your principles then you have no principles.

That is just such stupid nonsense! Yea, Bush is a WUSS, that's why he RE-NOMINATED several judges the rats had thrown out.