Posted on 10/10/2005 5:30:35 AM PDT by gobucks
The Republican base across the country looks more favorably on President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court than the cluster of conservative critics who are opposing her inside the Beltway, according to a Washington Times survey of state party chairmen.
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Eileen Melvin, chairwoman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, said she had just come from a meeting with state committee members in conservative Lancaster County, where she asked them what they thought of the Miers nomination. "They said we trust the president," she said.
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In Washington state, party Chairman Chris Vance said he e-mailed information about Miss Miers, provided by the Republican National Committee, to a statewide list of 10,000 Republican officials and grass-roots activists. "The next day, I got less than 10 e-mails out of 10,000 from people who were upset with the nomination," Mr. Vance said.
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PS That's why they call it politics...
He was asked directly about her, and said he didn't know her, and therefore had no impression.
The GOP-bots are deliberately misrepresenting Scalia's note that a non-jurist is a good thing on the court as personal endorsement of the Miers nomination.
I'm not demanding adherence to any agenda. If you really believe that, then specify the agenda to which you think I'm demanding adherence.
BUMP!
ROTFL.
You're prolly right. What am I thinking!?!
Leonard Leo is a Bushbot?
Whether I am wrong, or right, is of no consequence in this matter.
I do find it somewhat amusing that many here seem to believe because they voted and spent time and energy on FR pumping themselves up, that they have an inherent right to suddenly call the shots for GWB. Albeit many may have even worked as volunteers for the Republican Party, where does this gall come from?
BTW ... Enjoying life and oblivion seem to be acontradictions in terms. To me anyway.
So you have no quote for Scalia? Right, I didn't think so. All fluff and no substance. And don't call me honey.. And I don't know if Brown could get through, It would have been tough (may have been the right thing to do but tough), but that has nothing to do with my lack of knowledge regarding Miers and I do not believe in a stealth nominee. I think it is wrong. That has nothing to do with my reading of exactly what Scalia said and it was far from an endorsement of Miers which is the point you want to avoid. If you have an contrary opinion you are welcome to your error but try hard to avoid insulting others who do not share it. It's not FRiendly. Babe.
If Miers is the "closest thing" to a well-qualified niominee we could "reasonably hope for", then what was the point of busting our balls to get a GOP majority? This is it?
PS That's why they call it politics...
And that's why Bush, desipite his carefully crafted image, is just another politician.
*bump*
I enjoyed your series of posts on this thread. Thanks for taking the time. And I agree with you, the burden in on the party to attract voters. The "blame the voter" schtick is responsibility avoidance.
How you appear to me is as part of a majority, but not a crushing majority, who has played a bad hand, refuses to admit a mistake, and is determined to silence opposition in his own ranks - to compel obedience.
While I admit the President was dealt a bad hand, I think he has played it well. You can't make two jacks into a flush.
The reason it seems the other side wishes to silence you and compel obedience is that it is YOU who is making the unreasonable demands.
What you want cannot be achieved right now...the political landscape does not allow it, yet you still would split the party seeking the perfect before the good.
Like the Dems who fight W at every turn then blame him for partisanship, you resist the fact that political realities (read spineless senate) force W to compromise and then blame him for not appeasing you.
You mean like the dean of Pepperdine U.?Hugh Hewlett notes that he's about the most qualified Republican lawyer there is - but became politically untouchable when he accepted the job of special prosecutor investigating the Lewinski scandal.
Yep, I know...just tryin to get them to go into insult mode...getting easier by the minute...just ask for hard data or specific quote or reference and WHAP. Better Duck. Hard to stay objective around here these days.
I must say that the mood has seemingly swung over from the ... "Take a hike you idiot! ..." to a more civil attempt at expression.
Could it be that we will have a Senate hearing and be able to sort this matter out?
It does give one cautious optimism.
Exactly. Now you're starting to get it. You know, there are 125 million people in this country who don't agree with you.
Accept the three yard run as an advance, even though you didn't hit the 30 yard touchdown pass and live to run another play.
When the ravine is a half mile deep and twenty yards wide, thirty is much nicer. Three could get you a half mile in the wrong direction.
True, true. The GOP leadership is hard peddeling this nomination. Geaux TEAM! Rah Rah Rah!
Top-down management has its place, but it is a very risky tactic with the issue (Miers nomination) on the table.
The agenda to defeat Roe v Wade...the same agenda I have. I, however, am willing to accept that political realities dictate the size of any step you can take without falling down.
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