Do they really think that the Dems are going to let a true conservative judge go thru? If they are giving Miers a hard time what will they do to any of the real conservative judges? They will slam them left and right. We won't get anyone thru that way. In a way, the Dems have won.
First off, I don't want a "conservative" judge - I want an originalist. A "conservative" would just be opposite Ms Ginsburg - an activist for the right. I want someone like Scalia & Thomas!
Second, let's say he nominates JRB or a Federalist society judge. Let's let the nominee state their beliefs & positions! Let's get the Dems on record AGAINST those positions! Let's let the media LOSE THIS WAR on ideals! I have no doubt with the new media we have these days that an originalist such as Thomas CAN and WILL get on the Supreme Court.
my 2 cents...
I agree. Everyone saying Miers was an unknown, IMHO, that wasn't a bad thing. We could get a conservative unknown through (and let me say a conservative unknown who Bush said was an originalist, I don't care if she was pro this or anti that in the past, Bush said she is now an originalist), we can't get a KNOWN conservative through, mainly because of the RINOs in Congress.
Conservatives did the dirty work that we should have forced the Dems to do. We should have made them question Miers, call James Dobson as a witness, etc. Instead, the "pie in the sky" conservatives believe that JRB or Luttig can make it through the nomination process...maybe we should change the name of that faction of the party to the Cleopatra coalition.