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My "Dear George" Letter
Michael Graham ^ | 10/07/2005 | Michael Graham

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.


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Michael Graham, a recent hero here.

This should be good.

1 posted on 10/07/2005 9:10:29 AM PDT by Sabramerican
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To: Sabramerican

I feel your pain, but hang in there...


2 posted on 10/07/2005 9:12:34 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: Sabramerican

Fine Mike, sorry to see you go. aaa where you going anyway?


3 posted on 10/07/2005 9:12:42 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Sabramerican

Everybody has to get into the act. ENOUGH.


4 posted on 10/07/2005 9:12:45 AM PDT by Hildy ( liberals cannot change the present, and cannot effect the future, so they MUST relive the past...)
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To: Sabramerican

OK so pick up all your toys and go home. Now what?


5 posted on 10/07/2005 9:13:06 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Sabramerican

Well, I am definitely NOT voting for George W. Bush in 2008!;))


6 posted on 10/07/2005 9:13:35 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Sabramerican

Oh, please....'drama kings' exist too....


7 posted on 10/07/2005 9:14:02 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Sabramerican
Welcome to your newfound irrelevance, Mr. Graham.
8 posted on 10/07/2005 9:14:07 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Sabramerican

George Bush kills terrorists dead, so he's got that going for him. Which is nice.


9 posted on 10/07/2005 9:14:48 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Sabramerican

THAT'S going to leave a mark.


10 posted on 10/07/2005 9:15:49 AM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: dead

The ony good terrorist is a dead terrorist.


11 posted on 10/07/2005 9:16:27 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: Sabramerican
This should be good.

It was good! Thanks for posting it.

12 posted on 10/07/2005 9:16:48 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Sabramerican

Anticipating anxiously original thought in responses: "elitist", "snob", "moonbat", "DU troll", "Ivy League", did I forget anything?


13 posted on 10/07/2005 9:17:01 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: Sabramerican

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.


14 posted on 10/07/2005 9:17:22 AM PDT by right right
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To: Sabramerican

Great rant. It scares me that I found myself nodding in agreement all the way through it.


15 posted on 10/07/2005 9:17:26 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sabramerican
The question is "why?" You've got 55 Republicans in the Senate,..

Make that about 48 Republicans and 7 RINOs. That makes it a VERY weak majority. At leat five of the RINOs will vote with the 'Rats against any judge who can be proven to be conservative.

16 posted on 10/07/2005 9:18:36 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Sabramerican

Why was this guy a "recent hero"?


17 posted on 10/07/2005 9:19:04 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Sabramerican
You kill me.

That which you do not know, must be bad/evil/wrong/unacceptable.

I believe there is just as much of a chance that Harriet Miers could be the anti-souter that we all long for as not.

You, like most other people have asked only that people give you a chance in life. Why are you so unwilling to return the favor?

18 posted on 10/07/2005 9:19:11 AM PDT by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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To: Sabramerican

Well, I'm not that angry. But she damn well better show me something in the hearings, or I will be.


19 posted on 10/07/2005 9:19:15 AM PDT by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: Sabramerican

He's got some very valid points.

There's a lot that's happened that makes me feel very "sold out" as a conservative. Bush is still a Republican, but not a conservative and that's where my loyalty lies - with the ideology, not the party.


20 posted on 10/07/2005 9:19:36 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("Heart of my own heart, whatever befall")
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