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The sooner that abortionist witch (sp.?) and phony: Sandra Day O'Connor is off the bench and swept into the dustbin of history the better. If that makes pro-abortion and pro-homosexual and pro-affirmative action people "feel" less comfortable with the GOP, tooooooo baaaaaaadddd! O'Connor was sold to Reagan by lies produced by James Baker's flunkies who thought it was a bright idea to name a pretty blonde to SCOTUS and that abortion lies were a small and verrrrrry temporary price to pay. As soon as Reagan retired Sandy baby reverted to being the modern Margaret Sanger that she always had been as a state legislator in Arizona where she was Planned Barrenhood's main spokesthing.

And I am willing to take Dubya's word for his nominees until THEY prove unworthy. I would have preferred Janice Rogers Brown or probably ten other potential nominees but Dubya was elected. I wasn't.

Anyone who thinks that GOP senators are going to torpedo Miers (without some major unforeseen development before the vote), that the Democrats will try but fail to save her, and that Dubya (now chastened) will nominate and see confirmed Attila the Judge who will right every wrong we have ever suffered must be using awfully effective hallucinogens.

The woman is apparently a strong Evangelical. I am Roman Catholic but her faith as a nominee works for me, particularly on the life issues. She is not going to decide by what means we may be saved: grace, Scripture, faith (each somehow alone) or three yards and a cloud of dust until the moment of death as we Catholics may see it. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Let's not be foolish as so many here are dying to be.

She has never married which is what probably bothers some folks here. Yet each of us has known perfectly respectable folks who never married (Souter is certainly not one of them). There is an awful lot of purely disingenuous BS being posted against her.

Dubya's momma is undoubtedly more pro-death than Laura but I want both on my side when the switchblades are opened in the alleyway and the fight for the rest of civilization begins. The mutual enemy will be Ted the Swimmer, Biden the Prevaricating image of Neil Kinnock, Schmuckie Chewmer, Dick Eddie Haskell Turban, Madame Arkansas Antichrist, BaaBaa Boxer, et al., not Dubya.

There are a number of KNOWN conservative women that haven't married either .. (Ann .. Laura .. etc)

I'll be waiting for the slams on them

Oh wait .. what's that I hear ???

crickets

The sad thing is, this makes the double standard a presidence. By double standard, I mean: The head counsel of the ACLU can get confirmed with no real opposition, but a conservative cannot be confirmed unless they are to a great degree an unknown quantity. Basically, ACLU head Ruth Bade Ginsberg, is a perfectly fine choice for SCOTUS, but Janice Rogers Brown is unnaceptable. Which do you think is "outside the mainstream" for most Americans? Clinton can nominate whoever he sees fit, even with Democrats in the minority, while Bush can't nominate qualified conservatives with a sizable Republican majority.

Also: When a conservative justice leaves the court, it is okay to replace them with someone to the left of them, but if a liberal leaves the court, it is the presidents responsibility to nominate someone like them.