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MIERS & LAST-MINUTE DROP-OUTS (Priscilla Owen did not withdraw her name)
National Review Online: The Corner ^ | 10-12-2005 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on 10/12/2005 12:26:51 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite

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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Yes, I'm familiar with those articles.

I remember this, too, from your helpful excerpt and just made reference to it:

Chief Justice John Roberts caused a flap earlier this year by insisting he was not a Federalist Society member

People spun Roberts as anti-Federalist, too.

321 posted on 10/12/2005 3:05:52 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Exactly, that's what I said...we need to find out who it was that lied to Dobson (used him) and give them lots of publicity.


322 posted on 10/12/2005 3:07:16 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Pukin Dog

Fact? It is BS,that is clear.. If it's fact then support it. BS. Pure and simple.. and darn weak at that..If you believe it you have had too much Kool-Aid. The harder "we" look for facts the more BS get dished up. Swallow it? Not in a lifetime and if Bush doesn't want to dance with who brought him the GOP may just be making the biggest mistake they have made in the last 30 years..I'm not working this long for this important a chance and have him screw it up, and then behave as a "loyal little Pubby in flyover land. Crap on that. If this person is qualified and we don't have a litmus test that says a female must be the candidate then help us all out and explain this absurd nomination. I started this week looking for the legitimate case for Miers. I have not seen a scrap of legitimate evidence on FR or anywhere else. Maybe a scrap but nothing anywhere near a compelling case and we deserve better. This lame duck president has little to risk but the RNC will help elect the next Democratic President if this isn't repaired, I fear.


323 posted on 10/12/2005 3:09:59 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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To: Stellar Dendrite
Today during a conference call with bloggers a little bit ago, Ken Mehlman highlighted his own membership in the Federalist Society as a student. Why bring that up in defense of Harriet Miers?

Maybe Ken (the name always makes me think of "Ken and Barbie") is hinting that HE'S the next choice if Miers doesn't make it. Or that he should be. Takes one of the criticisms of the Miers pick "off the table," doesn't it?

324 posted on 10/12/2005 3:10:51 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: cyncooper
No, they didn't.

Conservatives chided President Bush for not boldly trumpeting his Fed. Soc. credentials, and rightfully so.

The reason for the obfuscation on that issue is because Roberts had spent his entire adult life meticulously constructing a resume that would allow him to assume a seat on the Supreme Court.

Personally, I think the manner in which they handled the Roberts memos-and his ambiguous ties to the Federalist Society-was less than stellar.

325 posted on 10/12/2005 3:11:17 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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To: Cboldt
The ABA is NOT apolitical

I never claimed they were. The implication that I did is absurd.

BTW, when I said I highlighted her speaking before them, I meant in my first posting of the excerpt. The second time I posted that paragraph I highlighted how she used her influence in conjunction with Leonard Leo to amend the Roe V Wade endorsement.

Leo seems enthusiastic about her.

326 posted on 10/12/2005 3:11:43 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Dolphy

Um, You think they have offered significant evidence to support her? Heck there is more support from the bots on FR than they have offered. All I have heard them say is "whadda gal" Vouching is not good enough evidence of her commitments to rebuild a constructionist court. Not even close.


327 posted on 10/12/2005 3:14:42 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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BTW, when I said I highlighted her speaking before them

Clarify that "them" = Federalist Society

328 posted on 10/12/2005 3:14:45 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Ol' Sparky
There were several people who were supposedly heavily vetted -- Owen, Batchelder, and Williams. They were also supposedly looking at Corrigan. The rumor is, though denied, that Owen withdrew. The other rumor is that someone else withdrew immediately before Miers. The latest rumor is that the person in question was Williams. That is denied by those close to Williams.

Oh, for gosh sake! No one's even reading off the same page as their judicial candidates there at the WH any more.

329 posted on 10/12/2005 3:15:53 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: RHINO369
I don't know whether he is liberal or conservative. I do know that when he first became President there were some, in the Congress [both houses], that did not fully support him. McCain, Hagel, Snow, Collins and others have undermined him when possible and yet wanted us all to believe they were behind him.

I, like all of you Freepers, would like to know what goes on in the Presidents head.
330 posted on 10/12/2005 3:18:18 PM PDT by frannie (Be not afraid of tomorrow - God is already there!)
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To: frannie

oops - President's head [possive not plural]


331 posted on 10/12/2005 3:21:04 PM PDT by frannie (Be not afraid of tomorrow - God is already there!)
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To: Map Kernow
Maybe Ken (the name always makes me think of "Ken and Barbie") is hinting that HE'S the next choice if Miers doesn't make it.

Watch it or I'll ping the kenlist!

332 posted on 10/12/2005 3:21:28 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: EllaMinnow

Her book sales must have gone down....."onchilada" ROFL!!!!


333 posted on 10/12/2005 3:22:24 PM PDT by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: Ken H
Dobson told the truth. So did Rove.
334 posted on 10/12/2005 3:23:13 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: cyncooper
The implication that I [claim The ABA is NOT apolitical] is absurd.

I intended no such implication - and apologize if you took it personal. The comment was meant to be taken as directed "toward Ms. Miers."

Leo seems enthusiastic about her.

That plays in my calculus. And in the spirit of the FedSoc - free and open, reasoned debate is healthy.

335 posted on 10/12/2005 3:23:13 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: All

Here is the link to yesterdays FReeper article stating that it was Rove himself who told Dobson that most of the potential nominees had withdrawn their names.

Then a poster on this board (see posts 1 thru 13) stated that he/she knew that Owen was one of them. I put post 13 on their because I smelled rotten fish.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500910/


336 posted on 10/12/2005 3:24:05 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Les_Miserables
Your #323 is the biggest load of nonsense imaginable. I wont even dignify it with more of a response.
337 posted on 10/12/2005 3:25:00 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Ken H
Watch it or I'll ping the kenlist!

Hey, I always envied Ken because of Barbie, especially because of that double-jointed thing she had! ;)

338 posted on 10/12/2005 3:26:21 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: FreeRep
Your sadly mistaken if you think that's the way it works on either side.

Furthermore, I'm a conservative FIRST and always will be.

339 posted on 10/12/2005 3:27:03 PM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: Cboldt
The comment was meant to be taken as directed "toward Ms. Miers."

Thank you for the clarification (I was being "touchy")

340 posted on 10/12/2005 3:27:08 PM PDT by cyncooper
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