[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Yes, conservatives like(but not limited to) Pat Buchanan, George Will, Charles Krauthammer and on and on who apparently don't support the nomination of Harriet Miers - those who championed Bushs's nominations of Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen, and who certainly would have supported the nomination of a woman who had a RECORD(emphasis only) as being a strict constructiuonist/originalist, have to be sexist! That has to be it?! LOL. /End sarcasm.

[AgThorn]

"I think people are not looking at her accomplishments. They're not realizing that she was the first elected woman to be the head of the Texas Bar Association, for instance. And all the other things. She was the first woman managing partner of a major law firm. She was the first woman hired by her law firm."

I think it would be SEXIST to nominate her on these qualifications being her biggest accomplishments.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Yes, those who championed the nominations of Janice Rogers Brown, and Priscilla Owen to the Appellate Courts just have to be sexist now in this case.

Please.

[OpusatFR]

Oh Bull.

I'm a woman who just turned down a Board of Directors position, and a new job because I like playing after making it.

I believe I am fully qualified to critique this woman. Raising the "sexist" flag is as bad as the "racist" flag run up with regularity at any and all criticism.

I find it highly suspect to nominate this woman in place of other more highly qualified conservative jurists.

Give me a break.

[buckeyeblogger]

I don't understand the White House for the past week or so. Especially the First Lady's comments and the comments by the spokesman last week that got the ball rolling with the "elitist" tag.

On a personal level, I wrote some thoughts out on the Saturday before the stunning announcement..nothing special:

http://buckeyeblogsite.blogspot.com/2005/10/essay-whiter-shade-of-pale.html

Not exactly a sexist arguement.

[anniegetyourgun]

So, the MSM asks a leading question (when did you stop beating W, Mrs. Bush?), and we're surprised when she says "that's possible"???? In some cases, it may is possible. After all, Ms. Miers will need a gut of steel to withstand the slings and arrows about her looks, her age, her bra size, her hair, makeup, etc.

[aft_lizard]

She didnt say they were, she said it was possible, a little bit of difference there and a misleading title there.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Already a thread on it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500406/posts

[thoughtomator]

It's almost as if they're trying to make Hillary the next President.

[Finalapproach29er]

My opinion of her is dropping precipitously.

Playing the ol' gender card.

What a nation victims we've all become.

[L98Fiero]

Unbelievable. The woman says it's possible some of the criticism is sexist and the knee-jerk FReepers take it as if she said it was definite and truly believed it. Sad, really. Do you folks really believe that it is outside the realm of possibility that some of Miers criticism is sexist? Laura answering a definite "No" would have been just as wrong as a definite "Yes". She just said it was "possible". Jeez people, quit obsessing and find a hobby.

[elli1]

Alma maters of Miers critics:

George Will--Oxford/ Princeton

Chas. Krauthammer--Harvard

Laura Ingraham--Dartmouth

Pat Buchanan--Georgetown/ Columbia

Ann Coulter--Cornell

[Between the Lines]

And just so what if some of them are sexist??? Is there a law against that? Are we now picking up the Politically Correct flag of the left? Are we to stifle free speech because what they believe is unpopular?

Mrs. Bush, over here on the conservative side we are free to be racist homophobes sexist troglodytes if we so choose. Or are you and your husband so far removed from us now that you cannot remember?

[Black Tooth]

All these conservatives turned out to be sexist and Neanderthals! Ann Coulter too!

[Chunga]

Newsmax is a joke. It consistently misrepresents its articles with misleading headlines.

Mrs. Bush didn't say Miers' critics were sexist. She said sexism was a possible explanation for the attacks.

Does anyone see the difference?

[dmc8576]

I don't think the people in the White House understand what is happening. Conservatives are angry with them, and so they decide to attack us as elitist sexists. That's right. We who advocated the appointment of Edith Jones or Janice Rogers Brown are sexist. And those of us in the heartland of America who are disappointed are elitists, not you all who sit in Washington and have turned a blind eye to the conservatives who put you in office. I guess you are right, Mr. President, Mrs. Bush, Mr. Gillespie and all you other Washington Insider (non-elitists), we are sexist elitists. This is a complete joke, except it isn't that funny. When people make comments like these it makes me more angry. President Bush is no conservative. He was our best option in 2000, and he sounded like one in the campaign but he's not a conservative. We have never had a conservative President. Hopefully that will change in 2008 (paging Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum). Comments like these make me more disgusted with the Bush administration, and more determined to see Harriet Miers not get put on the bench.

[Paradox]

BULLSH*T, she said possible. Sheesh. Was some of the criticism of Clarence Thomas racist? Sure, that was possible (racial stereotype of a black man who just can't help but be a sexual brute). Hey, alot of things are possible, sheesh.. The media again at play..

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Laura Bush was the last person from whom I expected such a stupid comment.

[linkinpunk]

Misleading headline.

She didn't bring up the sexism charge.

Laura Bush simply stated that it was possible.

NEWSMAX is as bad as WND. (Harriet Meirs Gave Money To Hillary's Campign!!!- which was also a lie.)

[rushmom]

I am still undecided on this nomination, but I know that Laura and Barbara Bush are not prolife.

[Antoninus]

You're not helping, Mrs. Bush...