Late Add: Fred Barnes over at Weekly Standard likes her. WFF?
Miers appointment to SC? Bush will lose almost all his base over this one. She is a Liberal Democrat, donated to Gore, and has zero conservative credentials. Bush has a tin ear, a suspect brain, and no more support from almost anyone who counts. The Republican Party will never support this. What the hell is the White House thinking? I think we know from their performance over the past year that nobody thinks over there. Nobody.
I don't read Sullivan anymore but this quote of a few minutes ago is worth a look:
The only reason I can think of for Bush to rattle his base in this fashion is the same reason Clinton decided to push his luck with a blow-job in the Oval Office: "Because I could." He picked Miers because he could. If he wasn't allowed to get his favorite crony, Gonzales, he was going to go one better.This is Bush's blow job? A bit harsh perhaps? Not harsh enough, says I. I honestly think that this is the end of the Conservative movement; a mediocre president makes crony appointments of unqualified bums. It's over.
Right Wing News gets it about right, if you haven't read it go here. Only Hugh Hewitt of all the bloggers on the Right thinks this is a good apointment.
Results of instant replay: after further review, World Magazine has a lot of good stuff from other people who know her. Be fair to yourself and go there. Says that any contribution she made to Gore etc. were pressure contributions; her bosses demanded she do it (the dog ate my homework; and if true why no contributions to the GOP?). Very religious person, very kind, and shit like that, but how does all this qualify a person to sit on the Supreme Court?
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I'm FURIOUS at Bush for ducking a fight. If Democrats suggested Miers, then it's a compromise with them, and I'm at the "no quarter" stage on this war on Leftism. When will Bush learn that trying to make nice with the Left is like trying to make nice with a cornered rattlesnake? Both will bite you for sure.
The Left needs to be slapped in the face and beaten and stomped at every opportunity until they and all their followers acknowledge that they lost, dammit. After letting the Left try their theory for seventy years here and eighty-five years worldwide at a terrible cost, we need to stop their amoral, lying socialism from further insinuating its rot into our culture.
I smell a feminazi, but Miers may turn out to be a fine Justice, or maybe not; we cannot take a chance on that. Bush let slip an opportunity to bitch slap the Left again, letting them know they are losers and allowing the public to see which party really is mean spirited in the public forum of confirmation.
The Supreme Court is the guardian of who we are as a nation, and needs to be populated by people who believe what the Founders said, who see the Constitution as the Bedrock, not a pile of sand to be moved around to suit. Bush missed an opportunity to safeguard our Republic by both openly delivering a blow to the Left and appointing a rock solid known Constitutionalist.
What the hell is Bush thinking... hmm, he's not... ah,... doing?
dick
Well, according to Bush she is conservative as regard the Constitution.
You better believe I am going to try to find out which is true, and if she's a "compromise" candidate, then I am going to raise hell with my representatives.
The problem here is that political affiliation tells us nothing about a person's beliefs about the law. She could be what Bush says she is - prepared to stick to the Constitution - or she could be another Breyer or Souter.
The Roberts nomination did not generate much of a fight, because it did not alter the ideological balance of the court.
This nomination will...Mr. Bush is wise to pick someone he is familiar with, and wise since Ms. Mier used to be a deomocrat herself. The more the dems critisize her, the more she can expalin WHY she left the democrat party...this is a work of genius, YOU GUYS GOT IT ALL WRONG!! :)
Xiaoding
From your mouth to God's ears....
This appt plus Bush's anti conservative position e.g. the border, I think points to the fact that I believe the voters will not soon again vote into the presidency a man so openly religious to the point that he says he prays for guidance.
I think GW is a good person, but we need someone who is willing to fight and fight dirty when necessary. This high moral ground and ethical values is all very good for speeches, but actions count and here the Democrats win.
I think GW is overwhelmed and is looking to pacify the Dems when like the Romans he should be trying to make them fear him.
JJ
"Says that any contribution she made to Gore etc. were pressure contributions; her bosses demanded she do it (the dog ate my homework; and if true why no contributions to the GOP?)."
She made no contributions to the GOP because she is not a Republican.
Imagine how easy she will be for liberals to browbeat into giving them the Supreme Court decisions that they want - if they can so easily browbeat her into giving donations to liberals!
Bartelson
your one post says it all - it appears Bush is truly stupid - just makes the Iraq war more suspect -
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