CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[Wallace T.]

Whatever Miers' qualifications, the inept manner in which the Bush Administration handled the nomination does not speak well for their PR skills. That they would not try to trump the morning shows by announcing her withdrawal before they came on the air is unsurprising. The Roberts nomination went well because the candidate was very well qualified, erudite, and well spoken, as even Senator Leahy of Vermont admitted.

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.

[You Dirty Rats]

Please explain how the withdrawel of a woman with very little track record is a win for the democrats?

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.

[OXENinFLA]

Frist on the Senate floor said he talked w/ Miers this morning and said she told him she made this decision "on her own".

[publiusF27]

Now let's just hope we get someone like Kozinski nominated.

[thelastvirgil]

>>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".

[B Knotts]

LOL

[kjam22]

I have a feeling McCain etal.... just started throwing things. It's going to get really rough for the rinos.

[ALWAYSWELDING]

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.

[NRA2BFree]

I just hope that Bush doesn't give us Gonzales to retaliate for what Conservatives did to Harriet Miers.

[workerbee]

Will President Bush now nominate a verifiable judicial conservative or will he be angry at "us" (the base that didn't support Miers) and start meeting with Chuck Schumer and whoever to get their insight on whom to nominate?

Let's hope all Congress critters up for re-election kindly advise him to do otherwise.

[Huck]

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.

[livius]

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.

[Let's Roll]

Yep, way to do their work for them. Talk about emboldening the enemy.

[Mayflower Sister]

Not,it was a whole base of conservatives.

[nicmarlo]

Thanks...you too; I've got to get to work...but I was so relieved about this....I just HAD to come join in. : )

[rhombus]

Mighty weapon? Explain how they have been handed a mighty weapon? The proponents arguments always contain bluster but not much else. Please do explain.

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?

[Pirate21]

Harriet Miers Has Withdrawn

Ask my family, and they'll tell you that I predicted that from the start. All along, it's been part of a plan to ease into someone else -- whom I have hoped (and still hope) will be Janice Rogers Brown.

[Heatseeker]

Might as well have a different picture. ;)

[tame]

HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Thank God. Now, will Bush add insult to injury by selecting someone like Gonzales or will he appoint a Thomas/Scalia like he promised?

[paudio]

Judge Diane Sykes. She is a true conservative, was put forward for US Circuit from Wisconsin by Senators Feingold and Kohl..

I thought the senators simply did that so Sykes wouldn't be in Wisc SC anymore? Will they still support her?