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.
Oh, really? Bushbot? Kool aid drinkers? What are those and similar epithets designed to do except to marginalize and silence?
Show me one argument supported by the majority of the nomination's opposition that is unfair.
Most of you claimed she was not qualified. In fact, her qualifications are comparable to many former SCOTUS justices. As far as the Constitution is concerned, she is qualified. When you folks yammered about qualifications, what you were really saying is that she didn't have a public record from which you could draw reassurance that she would vote and write opinions on the court the way you demand.
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?
Ah...that's where you don't yet recognize the damage you've done. I am a life-long Republican. Never voted for a Dem. Never will. I have voted for a long, long list of conservative Republicans because they tend to represent my policial point of view. I share many, if not most of the same political positions as does your crowd. It is your tactics, your vitriol, your piling on, your dismissiveness of those of us who admire and support GWB that has alienated me. Permanently.
You people scare me as much as the hard Left does.