Conservatives Will Regret the Miers Withdrawal

Washington Post via Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/28/05 | E. J. Dionne Jr.

[linkinpunk]

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

WASHINGTON -- The damage President Bush and the conservative movement have inflicted on their drive to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with allies will not be undone by Harriet Miers' decision to withdraw her nomination.

[Killborn]

Don't ask me! Ask that guy!

[chris1]

When the liberals were saying Meirs' pick was a repidiation of the right wing, I took notice. When she withdrew and they went nuts, I took notice. I think that speaks volumes of what they knew about her.

[Cold Heat]

It was a face saver for Miers benefit. That's all it was. The requests for docs that were mentioned had not yet been made, and it was the Senate defection that did the deed, and I think that stupid Ad run by No one in particular was what put it over the top.

That is way to much crap! Nobody but a professional politician would put up with it.

[WhiteGuy]

Conservatives Will Regret the Miers Withdrawal

First, our president brings his personal attorney out in front of the cameras and tells the world that he has found the "best, most qualified candidate in the country."

Next, our president tells everyone to "trust me."

Finally Meirs, who apparently isn't the best and most qualified candidate in the country, takes a powder.

Our president now has far less credibility and seems far less trustworthy.

His next pick? please......, who would want to be the next one? The one who wasn't good enough the last time? Will he/she be a conservative? Doubtful. It'll be a middle of the road, below the radar candidate who has been known in Washington for decades and has a strong loyalty to bush41.

Will conservatives be filled with regret?

Yes

[GonzoGOP]

I love how all the MSM is getting freaked out because the Senate actually too out a candidate because she could not prove her qualifications. I thought that was the ONLY reason, under the constitution, that they are allowed to stop a SC nomination for?

[Huck]

I didn't see anything hurtful in it.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Now that Miers, the former Texas Lottery Commissioner, as Ann Coulter calls her, has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court Bush can nominate a red-meat conservative who believes in Constitutional rule of law, the capitalist free enterprise system, in individual responsibility, personal liberty, and freedom of religion.

A real conservative will force the Democrats, who are in serious decline, to show their real colors and come out and fight against these things.

Such a fight will demonstrate to even slow learners that the once great Democrat party has turned into the mirror-image of the British Socialist Labor Party.

The Democrat party, even out of power, and having lost election after election, are still dangerous. They are like a Category 3 hurricane that has degraded to a Category 1 but that can use discord and unsettled conditions to build up into a category 3 again.

Americans should remember that the "agenda" of the Democrat party is to develop a tight ruling elite at the head of a socialist economic system that will lead the world using the United Nations as a governing vehicle.

This is Bush's opportunity to begin the battle to restore America to its pre-Roosevelt condition. Putting a dedicated Constitutionalists on the Court is a start.

[chris1]

What, support unqualified friends for high office?

[Cold Heat]

When she withdrew and they went nuts,

They have not gone nuts! I have seen democrat nuts and They are not there yet. What I heard was mostly all true for a change. LOL! That is simply a attempt to justify what was done to Miers and it sucks air!

[R.W.Ratikal]

Now that Miers, the former Texas Lottery Commissioner, as Ann Coulter calls her, has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court Bush can nominate a red-meat conservative who believes in Constitutional rule of law, the capitalist free enterprise system, in individual responsibility, personal liberty, and freedom of religion.

A real conservative will force the Democrats, who are in serious decline, to show their real colors and come out and fight against these things.

Such a fight will demonstrate to even slow learners that the once great Democrat party has turned into the mirror-image of the British Socialist Labor Party.

The Democrat party, even out of power, and having lost election after election, are still dangerous. They are like a Category 3 hurricane that has degraded to a Category 1 but that can use discord and unsettled conditions to build up into a category 3 again.

Americans should remember that the "agenda" of the Democrat party is to develop a tight ruling elite at the head of a socialist economic system that will lead the world using the United Nations as a governing vehicle.

This is Bush's opportunity to begin the battle to restore America to its pre-Roosevelt condition. Putting a dedicated Constitutionalists on the Court is a start.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Now that Miers, the former Texas Lottery Commissioner, as Ann Coulter calls her, has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court Bush can nominate a red-meat conservative who believes in Constitutional rule of law, the capitalist free enterprise system, in individual responsibility, personal liberty, and freedom of religion.

A real conservative will force the Democrats, who are in serious decline, to show their real colors and come out and fight against these things.

Such a fight will demonstrate to even slow learners that the once great Democrat party has turned into the mirror-image of the British Socialist Labor Party.

The Democrat party, even out of power, and having lost election after election, are still dangerous. They are like a Category 3 hurricane that has degraded to a Category 1 but that can use discord and unsettled conditions to build up into a category 3 again.

Americans should remember that the "agenda" of the Democrat party is to develop a tight ruling elite at the head of a socialist economic system that will lead the world using the United Nations as a governing vehicle.

This is Bush's opportunity to begin the battle to restore America to its pre-Roosevelt condition. Putting a dedicated Constitutionalists on the Court is a start.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Putting a dedicated Constitutionalists on the Court is a start.

Amen to that.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Now that Miers, the former Texas Lottery Commissioner, as Ann Coulter calls her, has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court Bush can nominate a red-meat conservative who believes in Constitutional rule of law, the capitalist free enterprise system, in individual responsibility, personal liberty, and freedom of religion.

A real conservative will force the Democrats, who are in serious decline, to show their real colors and come out and fight against these things.

Such a fight will demonstrate to even slow learners that the once great Democrat party has turned into the mirror-image of the British Socialist Labor Party.

The Democrat party, even out of power, and having lost election after election, are still dangerous. They are like a Category 3 hurricane that has degraded to a Category 1 but that can use discord and unsettled conditions to build up into a category 3 again.

Americans should remember that the "agenda" of the Democrat party is to develop a tight ruling elite at the head of a socialist economic system that will lead the world using the United Nations as a governing vehicle.

This is Bush's opportunity to begin the battle to restore America to its pre-Roosevelt condition. Putting a dedicated Constitutionalists on the Court is a start.

[MortMan]

Need a kleenex, Putz?

When out of ideas or the ability to state them clearly and convincingly, whip out the old insult, eh?

The strength of your argument is belied by the crassness of your "debate".

[Huck]

their willingness to contradict their own principles plain for all to see.

Here's where he's 100% wrong. The GOP (no to be confused with conservatives) have been selling the line that the president deserves deference, to cover up their hideous failure in the 90s, when they voted for Ginsburg and Breyer. Clearly, they should have voted no. The president is entitled to no deference according to the Constitution. The only deference he gets is the right to pick the nominees, and that's enough. A lot of conservatives are frustrated by the Senate and therefore want to circumvent and let "their" president get things done. I think that's a mistake in the long run.

[irons_player]

Apologies.

[jackbenimble]

Personally, rather than regret, I plan to spend the next 25 years thanking my lucky stars that she is not sitting on the court making rulings that mock the Constitution with her ill conceived ideas about self determination and the appropriateness of judicial activism which she expressed in her 1993 speech.

[TaxRelief]

This editorial is poorly written.

1) This blogger is blending the conservative movement and the Republican party inappropriately.

2) Dionne does not understand that, while it is inappropriate for the Senate to question judge nominees about their political positions, it is the responsibility of the Senate to vet judges for experience and understanding of the responsibility to uphold the law.

3) The people of the United States of America are under no restriction regarding discussion of the polital positions of nominees.

4) This essay belongs in "Bloggers and personal".

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

How do we plead rightous indignation when the Dems start pounding the next nominee with questions?

How about try truth instead of feigned righteous indignation?

[kittymyrib]

Little drooling E J is quaking in his Depends because if anything, the Miers saga showed that Conservatives have clout now. The Lefties have been warning of this day and building it up as the bogieman in elections for years, but they never really believed it. Now the Conservative ascendancy is real to them, and how they hate it! We will read many more of these "You'll be sorry" type columns from the Left in liberal rags throughout the country. This is the time to advance Conservative causes and policies as never before because the Left is in panic mode. Do not let up on them.