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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

just breaking!!!!!!!!


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To: nicmarlo

Darn, I missed all the shows and can't catch them tonight. But now I can harbor hope again that the president I voted and had high hopes for will nominate a solid conservative with knowledge of the Constitution.


2,921 posted on 10/27/2005 3:19:41 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: joesbucks
What's he supposed to say about McCain? That he's a creep?

Blackwell is a fine, solid conservative, and very strong. And he's going to win.

2,922 posted on 10/27/2005 3:20:34 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Take comfort, Friend George, God is with thee!)
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To: conservativecorner

Well said....I'm allergic to hero worship too.


2,923 posted on 10/27/2005 3:20:34 PM PDT by indcons (This tagline is loading. Please wait..............)
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Dick Durbin, one of the most liberal members of the Senate and a man partial to calling American soldiers "Nazis," just said on the NewsHour that the four words most often heard in Democratic circles when the Miers' nomination was discussed were, "It could be worse."

Keep that in mind when you hear Harry Reid's pal Harriet Miers defended by the hairpullers here on FR. The most liberal members of the Senate were content with her.

2,924 posted on 10/27/2005 3:21:12 PM PDT by beckett (Amor Fati)
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To: Mo1
... fine .. Go!

Be careful what you wish for...

2,925 posted on 10/27/2005 3:21:18 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: JeffAtlanta
I've already stated all of those things clearly, Jeff.

No sense repeating it all again.

2,926 posted on 10/27/2005 3:21:36 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Take comfort, Friend George, God is with thee!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If you have to quote a source, why CNN? There must be others who aren't as slanted to the left as CNN who would be reporting this.


2,927 posted on 10/27/2005 3:22:47 PM PDT by kevinm13 (The Main Stream Media is dead! Fox News Channel Rocks!)
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To: JeffAtlanta

Freepmail.


2,928 posted on 10/27/2005 3:23:57 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Borax Queen

Laura Ingraham's on Brit's program tonight, too....she's been excellent this past couple of weeks regarding this matter, as has Charles Krauthammer, who's also on Brit's program too.


2,929 posted on 10/27/2005 3:24:03 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: beckett
Keep that in mind when you hear Harry Reid's pal Harriet Miers defended by the hairpullers here on

Get off it.

Miers is done. Any further piling on is unseemly, beckett.

2,930 posted on 10/27/2005 3:24:53 PM PDT by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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To: Howlin
Great things will happen? Not in your lifetime.

Look at how bleak things looked in 1976. Carter had just defeated Ford. Nixon was forced to resign a couple of years before. The republican party was stained with watergate. The republican party had completely lost it's way under Nixon/Ford. Then in 1980 Ronald Reagan was president.

Look at 1992. Clinton had just been elected. Republicans were felt betrayed by Bush 41. Perot had sucked away many of the fiscal conservatives. Then in 1994 we had the House back after 40 years and control of the congress.

Things can change in a heartbeat. As long as Republicans are allowed to govern as Democrat-Lite and given a complete pass the cheerleaders then nothing will get better.

2,931 posted on 10/27/2005 3:25:58 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Howlin
Please do not lecture me on what I can and cannot do; I'm sick to death of the backbiting and the out and out lying. I belonged to a party that was AGAINST judicial activism, but I have lately learned that as long as it is a cause that "we" want, it's fine. Not for me.

What you said is true, but who you blamed it on is not.

The original broken glass republicans were for giving her the hearing and were angry at the right fringers for circumventing the process. Now we see all sorts of excuses combined with back patting from same.

I see many of them now calling for Andy Cards head on a platter.

They are not the RNC. All they do is waste political capital without ever a thought to pay it back. They will leave the coalition at the first opportunity to get what they want.

Hang around! You won't need to go anywhere, as they will be gone after they have done what they came to do and they will leave scorched earth behind after it no longer can feed them.

It will be up to us to clean it up and start again.

2,932 posted on 10/27/2005 3:26:58 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Mo1
IMO .... She withdrew because of the no stop borking that she received

Who borked her? Do you think she reads FR?

2,933 posted on 10/27/2005 3:27:54 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: JeffAtlanta
Who borked her? Do you think she reads FR?

No ... but I do think she reads the papers

2,934 posted on 10/27/2005 3:28:52 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1

Well, I'm glad she did this. Next time, Mr. President, nominate someone who's qualified-not your own effing lawyer.


2,935 posted on 10/27/2005 3:29:26 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (The Democratic Party-Jackass symbol, jackass leaders, jackass supporters.)
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To: getitright
Okay- I'll give you this much: No fruits, not saved. Fruits, maybe/maybe not.

Totally agree!

2,936 posted on 10/27/2005 3:29:43 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Howlin

Howlin, I think you have a point.

If the Democrats get back the Senate and the White House, they will act in a way not seen since the Civil War.

They have watched what has happened to them over the past several years, and they see, very clearly, their shocking weakness as the minority.

The understand that the strongest permanent bulwark to maintaining their power is maintaining command of the courts, and if they get back the White House and the Senate, or if they get the White House and the Republicans in the Senate actually follow their own stupid rhetoric about filibusters and won't filibuster Democrat judicial nominees, the Dems will pack the courts with hard-core activists, and legislate from the bench far more aggressively than in the past. In the past, it has been haphazard, but if they get power back, they will coordinate control of the courts by design.

They will do something else too.
If the Democrats have 50 seats in the Senate, and the White House, they will change the rules of the Senate and end the filibuster. They see how this could be used now, and fear it. But the Republicans are playing by the old rules. If the Dems get back the White House and even have 50 Senate seats, they will "go nuclear" on the first filibuster, and the Senate will become a "majority rule" chamber, just like the House.

A third thing the Democrats have learned, well, is how to use political prosecutions to destroy political opponents. They learned this from the Clinton investigation and impeachment. They are using it on Delay now, and Frist, and Scooter Libby, but they do not control the AG office. When they do, they will target investigations at sitting Congressmen, and they will use sweeping prosecutorial powers to remove from office enough politicians from states with Democratic governors that the gubernatorial appointments will give them majorities in the Congress. If you cannot defeat an opponent politically, you can indict him on trumped up charges, prosecute him and jail him.

And finally, when THEY are back in control of the elections commission, they already "know" what the Republicans have done: inserted secret codes into electronic voting to get majorities, etc. Of course Republicans (probably) haven't really done that, at least not yet. But many Democrats believe that they have, and have thought out the strategy. Electoral fraud is a Demcratic machine artform. And the recent bitter elections have taught them how to do it.

So, how could a Democrat win the White House, or even pick up Congress?
The John Anderson/Ross Perot factor. Conservatives and various issue voters and liberatarians who normally trend Republican are furious enough with Bush and the GOP - especially in the perennially unstable Midwest - for a neo-Reform Party movement, perhaps a party composed of military veterans, to suddenly stand up and take a decisive bloc of votes. If such a rising party were to actually run Congressional candidates and siphon off votes, the Democrats could pick up quite a few seats.

Once they get ahold of power again, they will use all of the lessons of their time in the wilderness to bring down the iron fist on the opposition. The US legal and political system are structured to facilitate such abuse. It just hasn't occurred to anybody since Lincoln to actually use the full implied powers of office in such a way as to legally crush out opposition.

If the Democrats get power back, they will keep it for a long, long time, and they will do that by destroying a lot of Republicans' lives using the prosecutorial power of the state. Call it the Sulla Strategy.

To avoid that nightmare scenario, Republicans have to be smart. Bush's move on Miers was not smart, at all. But fortunately one clear shot has been offered, now, to extrictate himself. He's got to take it. He's got to throw red meat to the conservative base and name a religious, conservative judicial constructionist, a known quantity. And then he needs to be ruthless with certain members of the Senate. If Arlen Specter resists, Arlen Specter needs to be expelled from the Republican caucus and someone else given the chairmanship. Nothing can be allowed to derail this nominee. Everything is riding on this.

Once it's done, the President needs to make a forced march through the border issue. He can shore up a lot of Republican support, and incidentally diminish future illegal Democrat votes, by putting more forces on the border to keep it closed.

There's no margin for error now.
If the President doesn't see that, and miscalculates, it will be a calamity for the Republicans. And you're right: if that happens, the Democrats will be in command for a long, long time. Because THEY will do to their Specters precisely what needs to be done now by Republicans to ensure that a conservative strict constructionist gets on the Court.


2,937 posted on 10/27/2005 3:29:46 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Mo1
Well .. while listening to Hannity, Ann and Brett ... they are now claiming to not be republicans .. they are "conservatives"

Actually, they are right. They are not Republicans. We let them in and they trashed the house.

2,938 posted on 10/27/2005 3:30:15 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Mo1
they are now claiming to not be republicans ..

So did Rush.

Do you think they're going to change the name of the GOP? :-)

2,939 posted on 10/27/2005 3:31:40 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Chck out the FR poll on who the next nominee should be. We dumb redneck racists support a black woman by almost 60%.


2,940 posted on 10/27/2005 3:31:49 PM PDT by icwhatudo (The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
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