Hugh Hewitt exposed, read this and weep (Redstate.org)

RedState.org ^ | 10-14-2005 | anonymousbosch

[Stellar Dendrite]

It's very interesting to go to RadioBlogger's july 2005 archives and read what Mr. Hewitt was saying about the SC back then. Here's a small sample. I'll put them all together, the perfect ingredients for a ** sandwich:

Hugh Hewitt on why federal judicial experience and a track record do matter:

You see, I've tried to explain to people about Judge Janice Rogers Brown, that she has not been a federal judge. And my concern over her and Priscilla Owen is, that federal judges just do different things than state judges. And I want to see a little bit from them, before you run as a conservative. I don't want to run blind. And I think she really hasn't done, for example, federalism issues, hasn't done federal pre-emption, hasn't interpreted the free exercise of the establishment clause, though there are Constitutional counterparts in California. That's my concern, Erwin. I just don't think they're reliable enough when it comes to understanding how they'll handle federal issues.

Hugh Hewitt on why age matters and why you don't want someone close to 60:

HH: You know, I had this argument with people earlier. I view every year as 70 votes. So when you trade from a Luttig or a Roberts at 50-51, or McConnell, or even a Miguel Estrada at 44, you're giving up seven hundred votes, seven hundred decisions. That's a lot of future influence for a president to give away to someone who he doesn't know who it's going to be.

and

Now let me close with Larry Thompson and Ted Olson, in the Washington Post write-up, as well as J. Harvey Wilkinson. They're all a little long in the tooth, really.

and now for the COUP DE GRACE. Hugh Hewitt on why Brilliance and Intellectual Greatness matter:

I want to pause for a moment, because you'll say great things about Luttig, Roberts and McConnell, as I have. There is an argument for brilliance that's got to be made here. And I don't know some of these judges. But those three I do, and they're brilliant. And brilliance matters, even if you're a dissent, because you've got to mold the law schools. You've got to mold the professions. You've got to look ahead. I think Bush needs to go for someone about whom there is no question of intellectual...the capacity for intellectual greatness.

Your Honor, Mr. Hewiit is GUILTY of fraud in his support for Miers. The evidence is clear and convincing, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[Map Kernow]

Not that I am an "old salt" by any stretch.

Anyone over a year here I treat as a veteran. :)

[vbmoneyspender]

Now, though, many so-called conservatives have eagerly embraced the weapons of borking

Given that Hewitt has taken to reading people out of the conservative movement that he disagrees with, maybe he should expect a little return fire to come his way.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"Where can I find those writings that turned you against her nomination, please?"

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2005/10/harriet_miers_d.asp

http://frum.nationalreview.com/archives/10092005.asp

[trubluolyguy]

Anyone over a year here I treat as a veteran. :)

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Well, I guess I am no rookie.

[chiller]

Not only that, which isn't suprising, the RNC is running attack ads against Chafee's Republican opponent. The ad, if you haven't seen it, is over at NRSC.org and it demonizes oil, oil drilling, and stockbrokers.

Are you serious? If so, my theory is correct; some liberal thinkers are having influence in the WH. I suspect Andrew Card. What's up?

[processing please hold]

Thank you very much for your trouble.

[flashbunny]

Glad to see the pro-miers crowd is taking the high road as always...

I've figured out how it is...they may be residing in the bizarro world.

In the bizzarro world, drawing attention to what someone has done or written, or the manner in which they've done or written it is considered a 'personal attack'.

However, calling people names, like "dumb", "dubma**", "Crybaby", "sexist", or insinuating that they're gay or drunk is the highest form of intellectual debate.

Din't realize they had internet connections to the bizarro world. Learn something new every day.

[Itzlzha]

I disagree, but I see the Mods agree with you.

Whatever...

[Lancey Howard]

I would like to read evidence as to why Harriet Miers is not brilliant.
I continually read and hear among conservatives that she is not smart enough for their standards.
Someone, please explain how it is known that Miers is not the smartest mind to ever join the Court.

That's easy - - it's the same way that liberals "know" that George W. Bush is a buffoon.

[lonestar67]

you sadly speak the truth

[COEXERJ145]

Keep in mind many of the trouble makers are really supporters of John McCain, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and liberal Democrats.

Exactly. Most of the people who are on the anti-Miers band wagon are the usual collection of Bush haters who have hated him since 2000. Some because the GOP told Pat Buchanan to take a flying leap while others simply because President Bush doesn't take their position one a single issue. They bash the President over everything he does worse than the DUmmiers ever could.

Then you have a collection of e-thugs who are here simply to try and start sh*t, disrupt the forum, and get people they do no like banned. Most of these are people who were banned from FR and now conjugate at Liberty Post and are part of the Boot Hill gang that actually run a FR hit list and Jim Robinson is #1 on it.

[chiller]

Thanks. By the way, your morning post about the Today show and their "staged" flooding story is one for the books. LOL X 10.

Standards don't apply to them. POS all !

[Oklahoma]

The thing is most of our so-called conservative pundits need to be stripped naked, tarred and feathered, and then rode out of town on a rail. Maybe by starting with Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter. LOL

These Harvard and Yale pseudo-sophisticates (and other northeastern Ivy League types) make me sick to my stomach. This isn't a philosophical battle, it's cultural and class warfare. We have an Evangelical Christian woman from the Southwest that I wanted stuffed down the throats of all the arrogant, elitist clowns like Kristol, Will, and Frum.

[EveningStar]

I gave it its own thread.

[bray]

Excuse me, Miers is the Heretic that needs to be Burned at the Stake!! LOL

Pray for W and Harriet Miers

[BigSkyFreeper]

As many posters have pointed out you won't learn a hell of a lot at the hearings

Perhaps you won't, I'll probably learn a helluva lot more than I already know.

[Stellar Dendrite]

hey, you said it not me!!!!!!!!

[Cboldt]

The thing is most of our so-called conservative pundits need to be stripped naked, tarred and feathered, and then rode out of town on a rail. Maybe by starting with Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter. LOL

The marketplace of ideas and advertizing will sort that out.

[fallujah-nuker]

"Keep in mind many of the trouble makers are really supporters of John McCain, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and liberal Democrats."

You forgot to mention that they kill a kitten each time they question the Miers nomination. And that since the oppose President Bush they hate America, mom and apple pie, and probably shop at Costco.

[bray]

You and Dumb Bunny are High Priests of the Conservative Movement and decide who is "Conservative" and who is not.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters