Miers' backers calm doubters

The Washington Times ^ | 4 October 2005 | Joseph Curl

[Aussie Dasher]

Harriet Miers' lack of a judicial paper trail yesterday prompted anxious Republicans to express doubts about the Supreme Court nominee, but her supporters say the born-again Christian has a purebred conservative pedigree.

"Those of us who know her know that she's a conservative," said Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht.

"She has supported a lot of conservative candidates here in Texas. She works for a conservative president. She attends an evangelical church, and has for 25 years, and she was a conservative leader in the American Bar Association," Justice Hecht, who has known Miss Miers for 30 years, told The Washington Times.

Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, said Miss Miers "has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career. She led a campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortions."

[Aussie Dasher]

I want so much to believe Miers is a conservative...

[JCEccles]

The Miers solution for eliminating crime: improve criminals' self-esteem.

[MJY1288]

"Miers' backers calm doubters"

Are they armed with Ritalin?, cause that's what it will take

[PhilDragoo]

Click on the photo.

[bad company]

Miers' backers calm doubters

Good luck with that.

[Earthdweller]

"The Miers solution for eliminating crime: improve criminals' self-esteem."

Please elaborate and give us a source. If this is true it totally stinks.

[Artemis Webb]

"The Miers solution for eliminating crime: improve criminals' self-esteem."

So let me see. You want to take three words out of an interview done in 1992 and try to claim that that is her entire concept of criminal justice?

You must be very admired for your intelligence by all your pals who go to the wrestling matches with you.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sourced out of your keister?

[TeleStraightShooter]

{cut to scene deep in teh WhiteHouse batKave were teh eVvil dr Rove is conspiring with Dubya and whiteHouse council Harriet.M to pull a quick on USSenate (D)s....}

K.Rove: Harriet - who is the best SCOTUS candidate to sneak past them hell-bent-on-filibusterin' (D)s?

Harriet.M {in her charming Texas school m'arm accent}: I'm single, available, and dingy Harry likes me.......

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Oh really?

"Meanwhile, during Miers long affiliation with the American Bar Association, she submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court and the enactment of laws and public policy providing that the sexual orientation of adults be no bar to adoption of children."

[Earthdweller]

Do you have a link to that interview?

[Txshep]

The gratis whining about this pick would shine on the premature side. Who here knows exactly what Mrs. Miers will put forth in the realm of Constitutional Recognition as opposed to the amoebic crap from the others?

[JerseyHighlander]

• Bush ran from the fight,
• he ran from his prior public announcements,
• he surrendered an entire decade in the future culture wars and burdened the cohort of Young Republicans with taking up the fight,
• he inexplicably wasted a 55 Senate seat majority, AND made it much harder for Republicans to maintain that majority, if the even deserve such political fortunes
• he has encouraged current Justices to remain on until his term ends
• he selected a woman because she's a woman,
• he nominated to the Supreme Court a lawyer who helped him in a legal problem with his country cottage 20 years ago, stinking of cronyism
• he gave Sen. Reid a stronger position in deciding his nomination than the public voices of his voter base,
• he denied his base the core promise he made to them,
• he has revealed he used switch and bait tactics mouthed through his media pontificators when the WH through them demanded us to suck it up and "compromise" during debates over RX plans, immigration reform, Campaign Finance Reform, the absence of a veto pen to stop the outrageous bloating of the Federal budget and Appropriations Bills, CAFTA, and others by using the promise of Supreme Court Justices as the payoff for all of the sacrifices,
• he used the payoff of a Conservative Constructionist Supreme Court as a bludgeon to stifle all dissenting debate within the party and the Republican/conservative/libertarian national debate, proving right those who were labeled too far to the right by our common political adversaries on the other side of the aisle

The WH just gave a huge phallic hand gesture to everyone to the political right of Arlen Specter.

On the other side, there are arguments too, including being a private industry lawyer, and a Beltway outsider. And she is a Texan.

Dozens of jurists and lawyers with documented backgrounds who are a decade younger were passed over. Dozens, it's a very bad thought that there are hundreds of conservative lawyers and law professors in this country who could name more than a dozen better qualified and younger potential nominees than the one the WH has selected.

[JerseyHighlander]

When this "Who here knows exactly" is written in the defense of a Supreme Court nominee, there is a problem.

[indianrightwinger]

LOL!! Good one, although I may need something stronger.

[Artemis Webb]

I wish I did. I read it somewhere on here today but darned if I remember where. I think I have lost weight (a much needed thing) hopping from thread to thread all day. :o)

To be quite honest though taken as itself the interview didn't sound terribly conservative to me. But I do not know the circumstances of the interview or who was interviewing her. Such things are often a factor.

[FFIGHTER]

"The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs." 1992 Article In Texas Lawyer by "Nominee" Miers

[JerseyHighlander]

Made a mistake reading a businessweek column, as per the cottage: She(Miers) joined his 1994 gubernatorial campaign as counsel -- and later represented him in a title dispute over his East Texas fishing cottage. Governor Bush rewarded her by giving her the high-impact job of cleaning up the scandal-tarred Texas Lottery Commission.

[Hank Rearden]

Here, for the first time anywhere, the 2008 Republican National Committee Official Campaign Slogan:

"We promise we won't piss away another eight years! Really. Trust us."

[Earthdweller]

"I think I have lost weight (a much needed thing) hopping from thread to thread all day."

I understand. This pick is the most important event of our life time. I will wait to form an opinion but the facts seem like they are trickling in as slow as molasses. We need someone who is objective to compile a fact check list (with sources).