Posted on 10/12/2005 3:30:33 AM PDT by ejdrapes
I was embarrassed that Bush allowed his wife to be drawn into such a conversation. This is not the Clinton administration. Laura was used and it is a shame.
Yes, that Richard Darman!
The good times just keep on rolling with with Miers, don't they?
"And conservative support will be missing the remainder of his second term".
Well I AM A CONSERVATIVE, and you DO NOT speak for me!!!
I will support this President, and I will continue to fight satan's minions in Congress.
You take a vacation if it makes you feel better. Millions of us are not so petty!
LLS
Some of your post seems hopelessly naive. Do you really think that the White House did not know Laura was going to be asked about the Miers nomination? Don't be silly.
The WH got exactly the exchange it was looking for.
What is dishonest is how you are trying to whitewash what Laura said.
She stepped in it bigtime.
Along with the 46% of conservatives who-if polls are to be believed-are opposing the Miers nomination, or so skeptical that they're withholding judgment, something that is unheard of in SCOTUS nominations, at least when those nominations are made by a party's sitting president. Face facts.
The fact is, if polls are to be believed, is that nearly 70% of Freepers approve of, or are undecided about the Miers nomination, and only 26.3% are opposed.
A lockstep "party conservative ", in name only, would not mind being used, a true conservative has principles and lives by them.
You can rationalize this any way you choose, but there's no escaping the fact that less than 35% of FReepers support this abominable choice.
Oh really? I was born at night but it wasn't LAST night.
Remember Laura coming out and stating she strongly preferred the next nominee to be a woman?
As PC as this Administration is, it is a good bet that that was precisely the calculus used.
No, it can only damage the coalition of the perpetually offended on the far right, and that can only be good.
My wife has voted, many times, for pro-life candidates and usually bases her assessment of the person on the person's overall trustworthiness and positions, not a SINGLE ISSUE. In that case, I fully think that Laura Bush, regardless of her personal preferences (and we don't know why she said she didn't think Roe should be overturned---perhaps she just thinks it's poor anti-abortion strategy, and that it's more effective to do other things), would support a friend and reliable person all the way. It is rumored she strongly supported Roberts, who, by all accounts, is strongly pro-life.
2) The FundandFrum duo is really attacking on this. Frum, I can understand, because I suspect he was let go at the White House under less than wonderful terms---and if you read his book, you can sense he isn't altogether comfortable with the evangelical tone in the White House. Fund, I don't know: I have seen him on Fox, and never took him to be a solid conservative---more of a Mort Kondracke type.
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Did I say I spoke for you? Perhaps you're not familiar with the concept of a forum.
Please feel free to pay my share of the Katrina boondoggle, Medicare drug plan, highway bill, NCLB, and other GOP socialism. I know, the RINOs made them do it, the Dems made them do it, sexist right-wing baddies made them do it...
McCain and his Merry Gang virtually guaranteed it won't happen. Re McCain's motivation, many things might be said. He's a grandstander, he'd like to get back at Bush for real and imagined offenses. "What's good for McCain is good for . . . oh, who the hell cares who else it's good for?" Any of them sufficient motivation for him to form the Gang of 14.
As I recall, though, most if not all on FR were upset because we wanted the judicial filibuster broken before a USSC pick came up, and Rehnquist was clearly not going to last long.
Could part of McCain's calculation have been that he actually wanted to sabotage any chance of putting someone on the USSC who would vote to overturn McCain-Feingold? I don't know that McCain has ever commented on his taste in judges, but anyone with even a rudimentary brain and even passing acquaintance with the Constitution would know that McCain-Feingold would be toast with a strict constructionist court.
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