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80% of Potential SCOTUS Nominees on W's List Decline His Offer
Fox News | 10-11-05 | freedom4me

Posted on 10/11/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by freedom4me

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To: ThePythonicCow

Perhaps you're right. I simply posted what I heard reported because I thought it shed light on the debate. Thanks.


61 posted on 10/11/2005 9:26:34 PM PDT by freedom4me (...Error alone needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.--Thomas Jefferson)
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To: freedom4me
The question we need to ask is WHY? And then we need to find out who has allowed this situation [cough...ahem...McCain...cough...Specter] and then we need to make them pay. We need to hurt them so bad that anyone who tries to pull this crap in the future would be so scared of the consequences to even think of it.
62 posted on 10/11/2005 9:26:34 PM PDT by Spiff (Robert Bork on the Miers Nomination: "I think it's a disaster on every level.")
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To: freedom4me
This is a disgrace. The SCOTUS confirmation process has really hurt good people like Clarence Thomas and now it has prevented people from publishing if they want to be confirmed. And all because the Left is determined to use any means whatsoever, including personal smearing, to defend a horrible decision in 1973.

Now we see that potential nominees want out because of the lynching. Sad. This is NOT what was intended with the confirmation process.

But people on the Left and Right agree -- IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!! We don't even know what his options were, but so many here have viciously attacked him. That's OK; he still has loyal supporters. He's fought for good judges so far and he hasn't stopped now.

63 posted on 10/11/2005 9:26:53 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Lashed to the USS George W. Bush: "Damn the Torpedos, Full Miers Ahead!!")
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To: BlueNgold

YEP....old news....FR had it first thanks to Pukin...

BUT, I did hear this today....that Miers was NOT a part of the choosing of other judicial candidates because she's only been the Gen'l Counsel to the Pres since February....anyone else hear this?


64 posted on 10/11/2005 9:27:36 PM PDT by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: Jim Robinson

"...that leaves 20% who are unafraid hard as nails conservatives. Damn the RINOs, let the battle rage on!"

Well said, Jim. I strongly second that!


65 posted on 10/11/2005 9:27:40 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: Howlin

Liars? In politics? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!


66 posted on 10/11/2005 9:28:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Howlin
Are you calling Doctor Dobson a liar? Will you stoop that low?

I can't compete with the "Marianas Trench" of Free Republic, lady. No one can.

67 posted on 10/11/2005 9:28:46 PM PDT by Map Kernow ("I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BamaGirl

In your hypothetical situation, what would your legal or Constitutional background be??????????? What kind of resume would you need to make it to the president's short list??????


68 posted on 10/11/2005 9:28:57 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: You Dirty Rats
Now we see that potential nominees want out because of the lynching. Sad.

And remember the MSM is part of that lynch mob.

69 posted on 10/11/2005 9:29:19 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, that leaves 20% who are unafraid hard as nails conservatives. Damn the RINOs, let the battle rage on!

Damn the RINOs is right. If Bush was the leader we should have, he would have come right out and explained the situation, named the offending Senators, and then declared total war against them. Instead of most of the conservative movement in the nation turning against Bush, he would have had them as footsoldiers in his war against the RINOs and the evil Dems who are destroying our nation.

70 posted on 10/11/2005 9:29:33 PM PDT by Spiff (Robert Bork on the Miers Nomination: "I think it's a disaster on every level.")
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To: BamaGirl
I think GWB didn't want to let it out, but all the critical conservatives intimating that all their favorite candidates would leap at the chance didn't give him much choice. I think it shows H. Miers has guts aka my tagline.
71 posted on 10/11/2005 9:29:38 PM PDT by Bush 100 Percent (H. Miers is showing more guts than the Senate)
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To: daisyscarlett

I see your point, but is the Hispanic a Catholic? You see, I seriously doubted that he would nominate another Catholic, because that would make five.

I have been told about another name, but I just can't reveal it. She wasn't nominated, so it really doesn;t matter... until next time.

I agree with you. The Miss Cleo in me thinks he's getting at least one more, if not two


72 posted on 10/11/2005 9:29:40 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Iwo Jima
Service on the Supreme Court defending our Constitution is every bit as important as those who fight and die on the battlefield. And a lot less lethal. I have contempt for anyone who gets the call to defend our Constitution and declines "for personal reasons."

Oh for God's sake! It's a judicial position, and all these people already have judicial positions. They just don't want to put themselves or their families through the media exercise of digging through their garbage.

Nobody's being elected Pope here. And, in the last conclave, even cardinals took their names out of consideration.

73 posted on 10/11/2005 9:29:44 PM PDT by sinkspur (If you're not willing to give Harriett Miers a hearing, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: jdhljc169

I would not want my kids to hear all of the contrived sh*t they would dredge up. Nor any of the real sh*t they would put on international airwaves. I think it is believable. Once Meirs is confirmed, this debate needs to take on a life of its own. In fact, President Bush should come out and tell this without naming names who refused . It would expose the vileness of the left and reamalgamate the base. He absolutely should do it.


74 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:04 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: freedom4me
Yes - I was shouting at the reporter who, I still believed misread this. I wasn't shouting at you. Thanks for posting this, yet another reminder that one cannot trust news any further than one can toss a linotype.
75 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:07 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (To err is human; to moo is bovine.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I doubt it's true, but even assuming it is, it makes Miers more courageous than 80% of the potential nominees.

All those principled conservatives would run away like scared chickens from a nomination to the Supreme Court, is that what we're being asked to believe? It's BS.


76 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:13 PM PDT by Kryptonite
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To: BlueNgold

Yeah....this has been out there for days.


77 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:13 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: Bush 100 Percent

So, you think Bush would appoint another "moderate" if Miers fails? Sometimes, "moderate" seems to be little more than a code word for "person who supports the murder of babies". Seriously - I don't care if he puts someone on the court who thinks that businesses are the source of all the world's evil and global warming is a proven fact - I just can't stand to think that our president would put someone like that on the court.

*sigh*... I guess it's out of our hands. I suppose all we can really do is pray.


78 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:15 PM PDT by OldGuard1
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To: Dane

Sorry you are automatically disqualified since you haven't gone through the correct career path as stated by some posting on FR they say is in the US Constitution.
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:P

Yeah yeah. Based on that argument we never would had Reagan as governor, then president since he was "only" an actor.


79 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:20 PM PDT by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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To: BamaGirl
As my husband says, if you've got a chance at the top job, you should take a swing at it.

I'm not so sure, especially with what happened to Miguel Estrada, and then his wife, during his grueling nomination process.

80 posted on 10/11/2005 9:30:26 PM PDT by SuziQ
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