"Yep, he's learned that conservatives will turn on him like a pack of dogs just as fast as liberals will."
There's a difference between pushing a little old lady into the path of a speeding bus and pushing a little old lady out of the path of a speeding bus.
Turning on someone for doing wrong is not morally equivalent to turning on someone for doing right.
"There's a difference between pushing a little old lady into the path of a speeding bus and pushing a little old lady out of the path of a speeding bus. Turning on someone for doing wrong is not morally equivalent to turning on someone for doing right."
All true. But completely inapplicable to the issue at hand. I certainly hope the anti-Miers brigaders are not planning to come out and take a bow now, claiming to have saved civilization. That would only make this more grotesque.
Obviously, Bush did not think nominating Miers was the wrong thing to do. You might, I might, but obviously, he didn't.