I like Rush almost to a hundred percentile but about Miers' and what I heard Rush say about it and the selection involved here by Bush, I disagree.
Rush made a point of saying he wasn't disapproving of Miers herself (I am glad he clarified that) but he also seems to say (correct me if I'm wrong about this) that the selection of Miers is disappointing overall to conservatives as a big let down for the Supreme Court because Miers is not a paragon of conservatism...then he clarified as a conservative he didn't disapprove of Miers but...continuing to emphasize how difficult our conservative present tense politically was arrived at, how hard it's been to get where we are and then there's Miers and, oh boy, what a disappointment and all the rest.
I am not at all sure what Rush said, is what I mean, other than he considers Bush nominating Miers as a big disappointment to conservatives who Rush says are responsible for the current Republican White House. And that there's an expectation accordingly by conservatives (Rush doesn't identify who, specifically, he means here beyond the corporate use of the term, "conservatives") that there would be, should be, was supposed to be some giant authoritarian conservative nominated for the S.C. but instead we have Miers.
I disagree with this. I am rather liking Miers' lowkey, "ordinary person" personna AS a Conservative. She's beginning to look like the Harriet Gump of the S.C. to me.
See my earlier post on this thread about his ability to make you think he's said X when in fact he's said Y. He's good at allowing deniability.
Personally, I have to confess I was looking forward to the fight, hoping against hope that those we gave victory to would give victory back to us in the form of a principled thumping of the shrieking losers on the left. No compromise, no quarter. I relished the possibility of an in-your-face Janice Rogers Brown category nomination. It is for these reasons that I was initially let down by yesterday's announcement. That being said, I retain my belief in the character and will of this President and will prayerfully support his choice, which so many of us here have insisted is his to make.