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.
BUMP! Not believable.
Well, Priscilla Owens obviously didn't think so..........and obviously some other people.
Perhaps some of you all don't realize how ugly this is to the people invovled.
That's a perspective I hadn't thought of. I agree. Thank you.
I don't have the slightest bit of contempt for anyone who saw soliders returning from Vietnam being spat on and then decided this country wasn't worth serving. It was immoral to send boys off to die in a war no one cared about without giving them the support they needed to win and the respect they needed to have honor. In the exact same way, I don't have the slightest ill will for anyone who saw the treatment even Roberts received, let alone Miers, and decided that this political culture is too sick and poisoned to be worth saving. We have fewer than 48 genuine Republicans in the Senate—a lot fewer, when push comes to shove. Don't be shocked when people refuse to march off to have their sacred honor ruined for no purpose.
It's one thing to risk an honorable death in a noble cause. It's quite another to be degraded and ridiculed by your supposed friends in a hopeless fight. It takes a lot of damned gall to say that anyone who refuses to throw himself into the meat grinder that you have created for him is a coward and a traitor. The Republican party is split between pathetic liberal squishes taking potshots at the President for their own political gain, and stiff-necked wingnuts who would rather wallow in ideologically pure defeat than sack up and play the game of politics intelligently. If this is the best ruling party this country has to offer, we don't deserve a Constitution.
Like today's armed forces service is voluntary.
My thoughts exactly; You are so right!