CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[sinkspur]

This Miers pick was in no way odd, given Bush's track record regarding appointments in general.

Who do you want to see as the next SC nominee?

Careful, you might name one of those sucky Bush appointments.

[EternalVigilance]

I agree.

[SteveH]

Read my lips: No more [politically correct] honey-dos, Laura!

;-)

[ohioWfan]

The attacks were on JUDGEMENT, not character.

Not all of them, adam. Not even close.

I have NO problem with people who questioned the nomination. But I have been nauseated by the personal attacks on both Ms Miers and the President. And there are a whole lot of others around here who have felt the same way.

[Wolfstar]

Stop trying to convince yourself that what happened is what you wanted to have happened.

What the hell are you talking about?

As for the arguments regarding Ms. Miers' education and lack of elite status, I didn't make them. Start with Ann Coulter and work your way down the list from there.

[Cedric]

Sorry, WERRE the majority during the shutdown.

[bray]

Nobody shuts me up, but they shut up people w/o my name. I could care less if it is a minority opinion since I always voice a minority opinion. I have a problem with the thug tactics that are being used by your side. Go look upthread and see who is calling who names.

You say there is no censorship and you are right as long as you don't mind being called every cheap name under the sun. This place never attacked fellow Conservatives like it does now for the crime of disagreement.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Republican Wildcat]

I think she saw the handwriting on the wall and decided she was in over her head.

Now let's get Janice Rogers Brown up there!

[GraniteStateConservative]

Would you want to go through this process?

I am not aware of a single shred of evidence from any reliable source that any of the top tier people declined the opportunity to serve on SCOTUS for the rest of their lives.

Everything points to Rove coming up with this story as a way to make some conservative leaders to go easy on Bush and Miers, and it was a cunning plan-- "Don't be mad at Bush-- he's the victim here! A victim of the process! No one wanted the job, but Miers told him that she'd take on the awful task of being confirmed as a SCOTUS justice."

[Glenmerle]

Kristol doesn't give two hoots about the judiciary; he simply wants to destroy this President.

You hit the nail on the head.

[clawrence3]

I agree - as you pointed out above, now O'Connor gets to decide the abortion and other important cases.

[Fishtalk]

We should kick the issue back to the elected leaders and to the States. With the cheap interstate travel I do not see a problem.

I suppose some states would make abortion illegal should Roe vs Wade be overturned. I doubt it.

Oncit upon a time I was a very liberal woman and no I'm not proud of that fact. What was I thinking? Anyway, I came of age when Roe versus Wade was overturned and by me it was as it should be. Men don't get pregnant was how I thought. Also affecting my influence, I had an Aunt die from an illegal abortion just months before Roe versus Wade was overturned. Yes that DID happen and the popular thinking, or at least mine, was it was simply better to have abortion legal than to kill both an adult and an unborn baby via the available illegal means.

As I grew older, more mature some would say, I became horrified at the abuse of abortion. And somewhere along the way more advanced and convenient forms of birth control became available. Damn, they have patches you can wear and not have to worry about it but once a month!

There became, more than ever, less and less of a reason to have an abortion. Still abortions were on the rise! Women started using it for birth control. Then there's the abomination of a partial birth abortion.

This more than anything totally shocks the hell out of my generation, that generation of women who demanded unfettered access to abortion. The decent amongst had no idea, no clue at all, that it would come to what it has become.

THEN we have entire industries springing up making big bucks from abortions. We have bureaucrats and cushy political appointments all coming about for, well I don't know for what. But when a politician can give out a job or a favored position, or allocate funds to a favored political group, then he or she WILL.

It all became self-sustaining. Worse. It became so that the limit was pushed more and more. Those limits became sickening. I read a story of a woman expecting triplets who had two of the babies aborted because, in her words, she didn't want to have to "shop at Wal-mart the rest of her life."

Sure I'm only one person but I've been there from the beginning through today and I've seen all sides. But there's lot of baby boomer women like me. And from my admittedly anecdotal experience, women are not all that adamant about keeping abortion legal. Us women know that there's hardly any excuse for getting pregnant and we also know, insert wink here, that many so-called accidentals pregnancies are really not accidents at all. If you're not wearing that patch thing that dang you should be using a condom due to sexual disease transmission concerns, such concerns not all that prevalent during my post Roe-vs. Wade era.

And partial birth abortion just horrifies most everyone around who understand how it works.

Abortion is the last bastion of the Moonbat liberals. I'm not convinced it's as fixed in the psyche of this country as they think it is.

[Howlin]

Yes, I know.

[Eagle of Liberty]

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.

You don't understand. The liberals will try to block ANYONE at this point that was not on THEIR approved list. Miers was on Reid's approved list. This fact alone disturbs me. And when they do block the nomination, we call to end the filibuster. Bush is NOT the one in the hot seat. The Senators need to pull their weight too and play the "Constitutional Option" card if it needs to be played.

[hummingbird]

He's 63. To old, imo.

No way! Oh, you mean too old for the court! LOL!!!

[ohioWfan]

Indeed, he needs our prayers. Probably now more than ever.

Amen!

[inquest]

You say there is no censorship and you are right as long as you don't mind being called every cheap name under the sun.

You're dreaming if you think that only comes from one side.

[Warren_Piece]

I was called a three-toed tree sloth a few weeks back by a Miers supporter.

Wow. That was uncalled for. Funny, but uncalled for!

[Republic of Texas]

I didn't annihilate her, I said she wasn't an originalist and that her nomination weakened Bush, which I didn't like. I thought we could do better. There was name calling, but anyone who is on that stage has to put up with that, or leave. As I say about the President, that BS comes with the big shiny plane.

[Howlin]

LOL.......none!