CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[ConservativeDude]

"And we will simply get stronger as time goes on, since we are the only ones with a positive vision for the future of America."

Bingo. What's more, we aren't willing to simply give in to McCain and Reid and everyone else...we aren't willing to run and whimper and hide and pursue the only sure losing strategy (surrender).

We won't always win. But our positive vision for America's future (like the vision of the founders) is one that deserves something greater than a preemptive, unilateral surrender.

[Black Tooth]

Oh, they "won" this round; but I'm not sure they realize what the "prize" is going to be.

You don't get it.

No one "won" anything. This was bad all the way around. Starting with the President's decision.

It just seems to get worse with him.

To win, I think were all going to have to wait until 08. And at this rate, were going to need a damn good candidate, and a lot of luck.

[Dashing Dasher]

And you know this because?

Did you speak with Luttig?

Would you want to go through this process?

[trisham]

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[thoughtomator]

Now only a very narrow range of people will ever be considered qualified for the court. They must have degrees from Harvard, Yale or one of the other elite law schools. They must have academic and/or work experience in one specific area of the law. Never again can a "common" man or woman be considered for the court. What I mean by that is someone who has come up through the world most of us live in.

The fight for this nominee is over. Stop trying to convince yourself that what happened is what you wanted to have happened.

What happened here is that "constructionist" and "verifiable" have been added as qualifications for nominees coming from a GOP President (if he wants to hold onto the GOP base). None of those other things were ever at issue, except in the strawman arguments of supporters. Do you really think we were more concerned about her SMU education than her demonstrable prediliction for supporting racist and sexist policy?

[Wolfstar]

Why should there be?

Point made.

[cake_crumb]

"And I am in no mood to listen to those from the wrong crowd right now, that continue to say the wrong, incorrect things."

That is the most honest, informative statement yet made on the subject of the Miers nomination.

[Republican Red]

but she will bow out so Bush can appoint his real choice Janice Brown. After the Dems made fools of themselves over going after Harriet, they can't badger a second woman, they will let Brown sail through and Harriet will have loyally "fallen on her sword" for George.

Except, the dems didn't go after Miers, the Republicans did.

[Howlin]

What you weren't willing to do was let the process work.

You denied her right to pass or fail on her own.

[bray]

First all I was talking to someone else but if I must address your attack.

WWWWWelllllll just imagine if President Bush had proposed Reagan's Immigration program?? He would have been tarred and feathered because it was far more liberal than Bush's.

Quit calling people stupid!! The fight is over ok, you won; now how about being good winners??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[processing please hold]

Regardless of how "hard" it was for you, you weren't willing to let the PROCESS work.

I don't think some of them realize that the PROCESS, has been thrown out the window. She deserved her hearing then an up or down vote. She deserved that much.

[Republic of Texas]

I don't have the patience to write a post that long, but I agree 100%. I disagreed with the nomination without ever calling anyone a Bushbot. I just thought we could do better, and I didn't like the fact that this nomination made Bush look weak. If I'm evil or intolerant because of that, so be it. Intolerance, like everything else in life, is not bad if used in moderation.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

I vigorously opposed this nomination. However, I have consistently prayed for the President every day of his presidency. Indeed, he needs our prayers. Probably now more than ever.

[rcrngroup]

Bush is screwed no matter what he does. If the nominee is too conservative, the liberals will block the nomination. If the nominee is too liberal, conservative Bush supporters will torpedo the nominee.

I disagree. If Bush nominates a strict constitutionalist and conservative with battle-tested, impecable, verifiable credentials (like Luttig, McConnell, Alioto, Brown, Jone, Owen, etc), he will see a tremendous outpouring of support from the conservative majority that elected him to do exactly that. It is time for Bush to stop pandering and appeasing the RINOs & DimWits because they will hate & despise him anyway. Give us a nominee that we can rally around and support, not another stealth nominee or liberal-moderate nominee like Gonzales. Do the right thing, GW Bush!

[Howlin]

I agree.

[PhiKapMom]

And when are Freepers like you going to realize that the continual sniping at this President adds nothing to the debate.

If you disagree on certain issues, then you will be taken serious. When you broadbrush, then your comments reek of someone who this President can never please.

Stop and think and you might find this President has actually done something you like -- what other President has had so much on his plate thanks to the previous occupant of the WH?

It behooves all of us to consider that this man has had more to deal with then anyone of us can imagine. Is he perfect, no and he will be the first to tell you so. Does he genuinely care about this Country? Damn right he does.

[Republic of Texas]

This isn't bickering. It's a fight over ideas. And it's healthy.

[loreldan]

Yep, he'll hear from all of us, but the feeling I get is he's a bit angry at the way Miers was handled.

[thoughtomator]

I didn't say it was pretty. Haven't you been around long enough to know that this happens with every dispute?

The Miers fiasco was like a day at Club Med compared to the Schiavo incident.

[rhombus]

I'd like to believe it but somehow I don't. Surely things like limiting partial birth abortion and parental notification is popular. But if everyone got an up or down vote in the privacy of a voting booth, I expect that abortion would still be legal. Of course I live in a red state rapidly going blue and work in one of the bluest of blue states so my views might be tainted.