Posted on 10/07/2005 9:10:28 AM PDT by Sabramerican
My "Dear George" Letter
Sorry, George, but you lost me at Harriet. When a reporter asked you Oct. 4 if Harriet Miers was the most qualified possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court and you answered, "Yes þ I picked the best person I could find" ‹ and you did it with a straight face ‹ that was it.
I'm done. Check, please! I'm outta here.
I am no longer a George W. Bush supporter. As a conservative, I have been bitch-slapped by this man for the last time. Those suffering from "Battered Conservative's Syndrome" will no doubt make excuses and find some reason to stay with this serial abuser of our principles, but not me. I have had enough.
I've had enough of defending a "conservative" president who has spent money faster and grown government bigger than any president since LBJ. I've had enough of a "conservative" who refuses to do anything to secure our borders, and whose only plan to stop illegal immigration is to hand out temporary worker permits to create even MORE future illegals.
And George, when you look me in the eye and throw me a good old-fashioned Bill Clinton "I did not have sex with that woman" line like Harriet Miers is the most qualified person in America for the Supreme Court þ buddy, you're on your own.
It's bad enough that she's hardly conservative and has no record of achievement. Mr. President, making an affirmative-action appointment of an unqualified crony to one of the highest offices of the land is wrong, no matter what your politics. It's not just a mistake. It is shameful. You should be ashamed of yourself.
The fact that you aren't is the reason you just lost me.
Again and again, watching you throw tax dollars around like a drunken teenager at a New Orleans strip joint, I've told myself, "Stick with George, because he gets the big ones right." And the biggest of the "big ones" has always been rescuing America from an out-of-control, activist Supreme Court. You promised me a Scalia. Instead, you're sticking me with a "sistah," a woman whose qualifications for the Supreme Court begin and end in her brassiere.
She's no Scalia. She's no Thomas. She's not even a Ginsburg or a Souter. She's a joke ‹ FEMA's Michael Brown in a skirt. In fact, that's an insult to Brown, who had at least some experience as a judge, if only at horse shows.
Your nomination of Harriet Miers is an insult to the court, to conservatives and to any American who cares about competence. She's an utterly unqualified crony who has never sat on the bench, never written on constitutional issues, never been involved in a single significant issue or overseen an important case. According to you, Mr. President, she's been your attorney off and on for 10 years, and you've never once discussed the issue of abortion and the Constitution!
Good grief, my mailman and I have had that conversation.
George, you have done more than merely betray your conservative supporters. You have embarrassed us. You have made incompetence and cronyism part of the conservative character. You kept CIA director George Tenet after the worst terrorist attack in American history occurred on his watch. You kept Michael "Best In Show" Brown in a job at FEMA he was never qualified to do. And now you're giving the Dallas Library Lady a seat on the highest court in the land and telling us, "Trust me, I know she's good"?
Sorry, no dice.
Trust you? You just went on TV and told me that Harriet Miers is the most qualified person in America to sit on the Supreme Court! C'mon George, even Harriet's MOM doesn't believe that.
And now we find out that, in addition to giving campaign checks to Al Gore, Miers chaired an American Bar Association panel that recommended legalization of gay adoption and American participation in the International Criminal Court ‹ both liberal positions that you oppose. So mediocre is the Miers pick that your supporters have already fallen back to the "Don't worry, we'll probably get another pick before Bush is gone" defense.
Mr. President, if you honestly believe that Harriet Miers is the most qualified candidate, then you wouldn't be qualified to be president.
But you don't believe it, and you know it. The question is "why?" You've got 55 Republicans in the Senate, you had a dozen well-qualified conservative candidates you could have chosen from, several of them women. Why pick an incompetent crony when you held all the cards?
I fear that, when all the layers are pulled away, we will find that your answer will be "because I wanted to." You knew it would leave conservatives disappointed and despondent; you know she's a second-rate nominee at best; but in your heart you are what I've always feared you were: a Bushie, a spoiled, rich-kid president's son who has spent your life doing what you wanted whenever you wanted and making sure everyone else knows it. The more people complained about cronyism, the more determined you were to shove one down our throats.
Well, Mr. President, you've certainly made that perfectly clear. You've told my fellow conservatives and me that you don't need us. That's fine, George, because we don't need you.
I'm done. I'm off the team. I have gone from a George Bush believer who reluctantly criticized you when necessary to an avowed critic who will support your positions when I can, but not your presidency.
Harriet Miers, "The best possible nominee?" That's like saying "George W. Bush, the best possible Republican president."
What a joke.
The fact that our minimum standard for judges has sunk to "no worse than Souter and Ginsberg" shows how screwed up the GOP is.
"He cares about what's important. When it comes to the courts it's NO MORE SOUTERS, he has said exactly that."
This President is not a stupid man. After what happened to his dad it strikes me as highly unlikely that Miers will be anything other than an originalist. With 3 years left in office He WOULD NOT take the chance. Earlier I saw his press conference and when asked about conservatives against her nomination he just looked disgusted. I have to say I join him in that.
Yes, it is a classically sexist statement.
While Schadenfreude may be a good thing, judging something based solely on this criteria is silly. I know we all would have loved to "hear the lamentations of their women", but I'll take a favorable end result, any day.
Needs shock therapy.
I don't vote party, I vote for individuals. The individuals I vote for are talking about cleaning up the illegal alien problem. They happen to be in the republican party.
I don't see any democrats in my area screaming to fix the illegal alien problem, they are too busy supporting day labor centers.
It will be a factor when I choose the next presidential candidate in the primary. But i'm not "abandining" all republicans just because the president is behind the curve on this important issue.
Wrist Slitting Conservatives! Funny and so true.
See post 139. I agree with you!
Ravenstar
You nailed it.
There is no CONSERVATIVE majority in the Senate, so none of the stellar conservative nominees stand a chance of being confirmed.
As much as conservatives want to fight this battle, the only ones allowed on the battlefield are members of the Senate, and the GOP majority still hasn't learned to make a fist let alone throw a punch.
Miers wasn't on my list, but it won't take much to beat Sandra Day O'Connor.
I understand. But I do have to consider the very real alternatives. I don't claim to support everything the President has done -- I am greatly concerned about the spending and, to a certain extent, the course of the war; and I'm iffy on this SC nomination. But I like George W Bush and I generally feel comfortable with his being in office. Did you hear Gore's speech this week? Now, maybe Gore wouldn't have gone off the rails if he had been elected president, but who knows? Would we have gotten anything we wanted if Kerry had been elected? Where do you expect the country to go if (G-d forbid!) America itself goes off the rails and elects Hillary? (I had enough trouble with Carter and Bill.) The point is, the President is more "one of us" than not. He is a good man who wants to do the right thing -- although he makes mistakes and (probably) gets some bad advise. He is someone conservatives can work with, although I would like to see a lot more fight in him and less of a willingness to sometimes take the path of lest resistance. He has a helluva job to do and a helluva a burden on his shoulders. Waaay more of a burden than radio pundits and talking heads will ever know. He is certainly not a joke. To the extent that someone living in obscurity on the southside of Chicago can have any influence on the President -- I will support him whenever I can and, whenever I can't, I'll jot off an e-mail to whitehouse.gov
That's a shame. I obviously don't think you're ridiculous! I hate it when these feeding frenzies start...they sem to feed on themsleves and go on entirely too long. I hope that when Harriet Miers comes before Senate Judiciary Committee that she shows the whole bunch of 'em up.
You are correct. The American people must start at the grassroots, to weed the internationalist socialists out of our government. And we need to hurry or it will be too late.
I know conservative-bashing is really in vogue right now. And while some of it, or maybe even a lot of it, might be justified, I would like to point out the following:
Bush felt forced to make this "stealth" nomination because he is weak in the Senate. And his weakness lies in the fact that there are too few -- NOT too many -- conservatives in the Senate.
Let's try to keep that in mind next time a conserative challenges one of our incubent RINOs during primary season.
So is Miers the young unknown, from out of nowhere, at Augusta?
A single issue person????
Precisely.
All you need to know about what is going on here with the MSM is that Pat Buchanan isn't a Republican, but he "plays" on on TV.
And frankly, I cannot believe that people on this forum have let those WEASELS panic them like a herd of sheep.
I disagree with a lot GWB does, but where you gonna go. Vite Libertarian and lose your vote. Vote Democrat and vote against America. Don't vote and you have failed to cancel a vote against America. I know many Dems are not against America, but they vote that way anyway. Too bad.
Kinda like, I'd rather have syphilis than AIDS.
A meritorious pick would, by definition, be a constructionist who would remain so. The best evidence for both the "is" and the "remain so" is a life spent fighting and defeating liberal judicial positions. Ms. Miers is not that person. Hence, there is no offense and the defense is "trust me." Which is inadequate in a position of this importance.
Boy, the purple stained lip types are showing their true colors....
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