Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
It would be unwise for the Administration to delay a replacement nominee. We are approaching the holidays, and next year is an off year election where RINOs might not want to vote for a staunch conservative like Janet Rogers Brown for fear of their home state electorate. Nomination someone of moderate reputation like Alberto Gonzales will only trigger a second civil war in Republican ranks.
I won't have to do that. Watch what happens to the next nominee. Watch what 'Rat Senators and the Leftist press say. Watch the moderate Republican Senators refuse to back the President's nominee with the "nucular" option. The President has been gravely weakened (partly on him, partly on the over-the-top reaction from the likes of Maureen Coulter and others) and that makes it more difficult to get a nominee confirmed.
>>Unbelievable.<<
Not so unbelievable. G.W. gets a Mulligan, and I hope he takes advantage of it to appoint someone with a brain and the understanding of the term "originalist".
LOL
I have a feeling McCain etal.... just started throwing things. It's going to get really rough for the rinos.
Edith Clement is not a strong choice. He won't choose her. It would be another mistake and he wants to get all the conservatives on board this time.
Let's hope all Congress critters up for re-election kindly advise him to do otherwise.
Crucifixion? You don't think that's a bit of an exaggeration? Let's see, on the one hand you have a high paid lawyer who doesn't get to sit on the Supreme Court. On the other, you have someone being nailed to a cross and left to die. Yeah, I'd say they're equivelant.
I think that we have really handed the Dems a giant victory.
I wouldn't have minded if she had made it to hearings and then there had been outcry if she expressed unacceptable opinions, and she had either withdrawn or been voted down. That's why the GOP theoretically has always demanded hearings.
But the truth here is that nobody (other than Bush) really knew what her current opinions on anything were, and seeing a President's choice brought down by mob outcry without even going through the procedures is devastating. The Dems are jumping up and down with glee at this.
Yep, way to do their work for them. Talk about emboldening the enemy.
Not,it was a whole base of conservatives.
Thanks...you too; I've got to get to work...but I was so relieved about this....I just HAD to come join in. : )
Bluster! There was plenty of that here over the past few weeks and not much practical politics. Now we have no right to demand a fair up or down vote for anyone since we ourselves denied it to Miers. The left knows they can filibuster the next nomination saying "Bush gave in to the rapid right wing cabal" of the Republican party - they will raise a ton of campaign money for '06 on this fear alone and our candidates will be forced away from the right not toward the right. We've threatened and PO'ed RINOs who now won't feel any pressure at all to support the dream candidate that everyone hoped for, in fact they will want to show their independence. I hope I'm wrong, I don't expect I am. How many Senate votes do you think your "real conservative" candidate can count on?
Might as well have a different picture. ;)
Thank God. Now, will Bush add insult to injury by selecting someone like Gonzales or will he appoint a Thomas/Scalia like he promised?
I thought the senators simply did that so Sykes wouldn't be in Wisc SC anymore? Will they still support her?
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