CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[burzum]

I have always been skeptical about the Miers nomination. I thought it was a bluff. If Bush wanted to rally support for a nominee that the GOP would fight for (like Owens, Luttig, etc.) he would first use a fake nominee to wake them up. Now that the GOP is awake and ready for a fight (and quite frankly, wanting to do some brawlin'), he can nominate a strong orignalist and have 100% support. At the same time, there will be a lot less tolerance in the GOP about wanting to cave into the Democrats' demands. If he picks a strong originalist, he could potentially deliver a very powerful blow to the Democrats (and perhaps kill the filibuster rule at the same time).

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Kumbayaaaaa...."

[Howlin]

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.

What you're going to need it votes; and you won't get them with a right wing conservative.

[1Old Pro]

We won't always win, but by showing a willingness to fight (repeatedly if necessary) for what really matters, we will get far more of what we want then expecting policy scraps under the dinner table.

I must say that at first I thought Miers was fine and that we would sustain less "damage" with a stealth candidate and avoiding the big fight.

Well, I've now seen that we have damaged ourselves so let's take the gloves off and have at it with a real in your face conservative originalist with a loooong track record.

[oceanview]

what process? this IS the process now, the hearings are meaningless, we all know that. she was allowed to pass or fail on her own.

[thoughtomator]

I'm no friend of the poorly-mannered, either. I guess being on the East Coast my whole life I've learned to simply filter out poor manners and to ignore them. But those people are not typical, they are mostly fringe individuals with poor self-control. Overall the conservative opposition was well-spoken, well-reasoned, factually correct, and showed it could fight like a... oh, what's the right metaphor... a "pit bull in size 6 shoes"?

[DCPatriot]

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

I fear that it will require more than the ballot box to keep our Republic.

Jefferson's words keep echoing in my ears....if you know what I mean.

[GarySpFc]

You are pitiful. There is no one that cares one hoot about the religious affiliations of Supreme Court Nominees.
It isn't about how the nominee prays, it is how they THINK


And how one thinks is very much predicated on what they believe. The Founding Fathers were very aware of this little fact.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Rove said it to Dobson to shut him up

Factually inaccurate. Many dropped out because they didn't want to subject their families under the same "politics of personal destructon" microscope that they themselves get put under. Many of them also dropped out because the Democrats made it quite clear just what "outside the mainstream" meant. It's very complicated, and has nothing to do with Rove or Dobson chatting privately.

[rcocean]

"It is a term that describes the ultra Right, not the Left."

Right.

Only lefties call conservatives "reactionaries". It's a Communist term from way back.

So you are a left-winger - is that correct?

[Pukin Dog]

I'm not in the prediction business, I only repeated what I was told. Now, the last thing I was told was that Bush would not be in a rush to nominate someone else, upon Miers withdrawal, but I am going to request an update on that.

[JewishRighter]

I second your thoughts. In fact, if you look at this thread alone, the name that seems to come up the most is Janice Rogers Brown, not an Ivy League-good ole' boy in the least. I'll credit it to the fact that anyone who is a true conservative and has read any of her writings must conclude that she is -on right in her views and not timid about stating originalist constitutional principals and a properly restrained judicial philosophy. Speaking for myself, I truly don't give a damn what school she went to, what gender she is, what color she is or what cereal she eats for breakfast: she's excellent and that's all that counts!!!

[N3WBI3]

Please freepers have been very squarely supporting Bush until Miers... 45% of freepers here think it was a bad nomination did 45% of freeper flip out about Roberts? No, some were not happy but a large majority liked him more and more as we heard more about him (pretty much the opposite effect as Meirs was having).

If Bush gives conservatives a Brown they will stand behind him no matter how ugly it gets in the senate..

[GOPJ]

I don't think some of them realize that the PROCESS, has been thrown out the window.

Part of the "process" is the right to withdraw a name from consideration. President Bush didn't want to hand over White House files to back up this nomination. That was his right - and a legitimate part of the process.

[Howlin]

LOL.........isn't that the truth.

I wonder what "the wrong crowd" is...........LOL.

[Deo et Patria]

Why is reaching for the nuclear option "not good"? The libs created this mess with unconstitutional filibusters that subvert majority rule, and nuclear option will fix it. Plus, Bush will immediately reclaim hero status with the currently disenchanted base.

[LibertarianInExile]

"I'm not the one threatening to leave; and contrary to the long chanted mantra around here, it is YOU who cannot win without US."

Oh, RIIIGHT. First you claim you're not threatening to leave (that whole 'prize' thing was about some lottery pick Miers must have tipped you to, right?) and then you claim CONSERVATIVES can't win without RINOs? I think it's the other way around, pally. There's a big middle, but it's not gonna turn out for RINO ideals like affirmative action and abortion on demand.

"Elections are won in the middle; sneer at us if you must, but you cannot get anybody elected by yourself."

Conservatives have gotten plenty of folks elected, and barring any surprises, we'll do it in 2008, too. Speaking as someone who's in the middle, and not stuck out on the left like you RINOs, I fully expect us to take the middle. It'll be ditching you power-hungry hangers-on behind in the process that will be the trick.

[inquest]

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.

So since the political pressure is equal either way, he might as well do the right thing and nominate a solid constitutionalist like Brown, and actually fight for her.

He has to decide: Would he rather fight liberals, whose only interest is getting judges who'll impose their leftist views against the will of the people, or fight conservatives, who want a judges who, relative to liberal judges, would mostly uphold the will of the people? Could the choice be clearer?

[GOPCajunLady]

ABSOLUTELY!! Janice Brown ALL OF THE WAY!! :D

[N3WBI3]

Yea the nerve of Conservatives to expect people more in the mold of Rehnquist, how selfish of the to keep bush to a campaign promise