I'm being perfectly honest with both myself and you. What has stuck in your craw are the unfair attacks, but they constitute a small minority of the opposition. You do yourself and us a disservice by dismissing the principled opposition on the basis of arguments we would not make. This isn't a Soviet here where dissenters can be silenced and crushed to make sure they're "on message".
You're remark about dissent being silenced and crushed is funny. How about the insults hurled at those of us who wanted to see Ms. Miers treated fairly? Hmmm... The crowd you represent sure did a mighty fine job of crushing our point of view.
To treat her, or any nominee, fairly is not the same as supporting the nomination. As for the unfair attacks being in the minority, sorry but you don't get off that easily. It isn't true.
Yep. You bet the unfair treatment of Ms. Miers sticks in my craw. It is what the Left has done to countless Republicans for most of my lifetime. Now I see the same vile tactics being used against a decent woman who, by all accounts, had led an exemplary life. There is no way I would ever condone that.
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.
Don't buy this whining about the 'unfair attacks.' They were few and far between, and that's now the party line of the party hacks to explain why their stealth nominee crashed and burned in the face of a united conservative call for a clearly qualified clearly constitutionalist nominee. But where the unfair attacks came from in this debate, contrary to these silly claims that she was 'miered,' were the sexist-elitist-insult lines of the Miers partisans. To hear them tell it now, that was just friendly banter, while using Miers' own words against her and pointing out her sparse record and credentials, that was a 'vicious attack.'
The RINOs here lost their last chance to keep the court RINO, and now they need to fall in with the conservative nominee. What they're doing instead is lining up to trash any conservative nominee with the Rats, and hoping they'll be able to wait out the right by trashing until they get another stealth lib. It's worked before, but it won't work this time. Too many of us are watching, we're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it any more.