CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

There are republicans, too many of them, who will jump ship if it comes to a nuclear option vote. The nominee will then fail.

I think we need to walk down that road to prove that point.

But meanwhile the swing vote on the Court would remain tilted to the anti-God side.

It's in God's hands. We have long prayed for God to heal the Supreme Court. But considering the hateful behavior of Christians this past month, it could be that His healing will be to swing the Court hard to the left with yet another "Souter" - so that His own people will understand what happens when they choose self-will instead of seeking His will.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind ... Hosea 8:7

[Siena Dreaming]

And now all the Miers haters are gearing up to do the same to the next person the President nominates

I remember when everyone jumped on Trent Lott when he resigned. They all hailed Frist as the next Messiah.

Guess what? Now Frist is trashed regularly on FR.

Republicans eat their own.

[SupplySider]

More like if the next nominee does not pass the Roe v. Wade litmus test...they'll be ground into chum and thrown to the sharks just like Miers.

You might be right. I hope not. We'll soon see!

[F.J. Mitchell]

He did lose his license, but since the President may Constitutionally nominate anyone to the Supreme Court, regardless of judicial qualifications, ol' Slick (God help us!) could probably become a legitimate nominee.

And you are right-he would probably sail through committee and the full Senate, like a redhot knife through butter.

That is scary. Thank God the President is not a vengeful guy. Right Mr. President.......right...?

[steveegg]

Hearings. And that's what Meirs needed.

Hearings where the only evidence of a judicially-conservative philosophy (for the sake of argument, I'm assuming that it does exist), her work for Bush and in the White House, would necessarily not have come out. To the extent that this recent late-life conversion to conservatism would have come out, the support among the RATs who saw her as a like-for-like replacement for O'Connor would have dried up faster than any support among the few conservative Senate Pubbies would have formed.

[Benkei]

I am in!

10 Peepul's Demokratick Republic of Hillary rubles on Edith Jones!

Redeemable for 23.456.819th place in line for an aspirin at the National Healthcare Bureau in 2009.

[trisham]

No, you didn't. You gave no proof. I have proof-- an attorney friend of Priscilla Owen heard about this Rove-created campaign and asked her if it was true, and Owen said she "most emphatically" did not tell Bush not to nominate her.

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Source?

[madconservative]

Fair enough. But I don't think we should all lament a little internal conflict. I believe that independent (small "i") thinkers must refuse to merely fall in line.
Obviously, one would prefer to keep it impersonal, but humans will be humans.

I was taught a long time ago never to try to break up two brothers in a fight...

[rdb3]

Have you seen that poster from despair.com?

If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.

As sad as it is, there is probably truth to that.

No, I haven't seen that. It's not "sad" because the statement is 100% correct.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

[clawrence3]

Agreed - my point exactly.

[Republic of Texas]

If Frist had been the fighting Conservative we all thought/hoped he was, he would be wildly popular. He chose the milquetoast route, so he gets lukewarm support.

[puroresu]

Actually, I'm a Bush supporter. I've voted for him twice and would do so again.

However, he isn't always right, and neither was Reagan. The amnesty Reagan signed turned out to be a disaster.

[trubluolyguy]

I'm sorry, but I do not buy that.

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I suppose then that her own words showing she was pro abortion didn't bother you?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>> Republicans eat their own.

All too often.

[Reagan is King]

I'll second that! She was my pick all along so let's hope the Prez agrees with us.

[thoughtomator]

The irony of your statement is overwhelming.

There was no silencing of the pro-Miers camp - simply debate. Nobody stopped you from having your say, and it's not our fault that there wasn't any serious argument for you to make.

If you think unfair attacks are not the minority, show me one argument supported by the majority of the nomination's opposition that is unfair. Pointing at fringe arguments as typical of the opposition is no more fair than saying Fred Phelps is typical of Christians.

The key difference between what the Left does and what happened here is that this debate was on substance (and mostly the lack thereof). If you can't tell the difference then you are blinded by your own emotion.

You uber-conservatives may think you've won, but you haven't. You want to get your candidates elected? You need the votes of Republicans like me to do it. And at least in my personal case, you have lost my vote forever.

We haven't won yet but we've stopped the bleeding. But your statement is outrageous - why should we have supported your candidate when it was always plain and clear that you had no intention of supporting ours? Your own bitterness defeats any remnant of argument that you ever had in support of the nomination.

[TAdams8591]

"What are your thoughts on how this looks from the Dem point of view. I fear that the administration appears weaker now than before."

If the president nominates a good conservative, to the extent that is indeed the perception among democrats, conservatives and Republicans will rally around the President and it will dissipate quickly.

Frankly, I believe the democrats are scared out of their wits at this point. We might get another staunch conservative on the court.

[pollyannaish]

LOL.

[cake_crumb]

"Not at all ... in fact, it has been pointed out to me that Janice Rogers Brown, whom I admire greatly, is too much of a civil libertarian and may not be strong enough in the War on Terror."

If I had the ambition and wasn't simultaneously arguing the about the necessity of two years of physics in order to get into U of Wisconson-Madison I'd go back to the beginning and start counting the cocky demands for Brown. There are easily a hundred.

As for Luttig...we'll see. I'll wait for the next nominee and hope like heck the process is allowed to proceed in a normal manner.

[mosquitobite]

I really think the Pro-Miers crowd is confused. There were a small percentage of pro-life people who argued against Miers because they didn't feel she was pro-life ENOUGH. But I believe abortion was NOT the issue (nor SHOULD it be). If we get an originalist, we get someone who will overturn Roe - we're all happy - social conservatives, moderates AND Republicans. Do you have proof Miers was an originalist?

Simply being "pro-life" isn't enough for me to stand behind a nominee. Heck, hasn't SDO said she's pro-life?

It's not about abortion - it's about that lovely piece of paper we call the Constitution. And for FReepers on here reducing this to simply about abortion - you are playing RIGHT into the DAMN MSM's hands.

It's not about abortion! K?