[areafiftyone]

The manner in which Miers was sunk gives the Dems in the Senate a huge lift. They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis. They've wanted an opportunity to derail the process, and it was just handed to them. It would have been much better for her to have failed on a vote where there would be a lot of Democrats on record as having opposed her. Now, the withdrawal will be blamed entirely on the right. And the Dem "support" for her will be there excuse to derail future nominees.

Exactly right. Now we can't even blame this one on the Dems - we did it to one of our own. Did you know that a Conservative Christian group took a whole full blown ad out yesterday in a paper asking Bush to withdraw Miers? How pathetic is that when they don't even know what she is like?

[XJarhead]

Did you know that a Conservative Christian group took a whole full blown ad out yesterday in a paper asking Bush to withdraw Miers? How pathetic is that when they don't even know what she is like?

And that stuff is going to be trumpeted to the hills by the Dems for anyone remotely conservative Bush sends up next.

Opposing Miers and defeating her nomination may have been the right thing to do. But the manner in which it was done is going to come back and bite us big-time. Conservatives who are crowing about this and demanding to be given "credit" are playing right into the hands of the Dems and RINO's.