Posted on 10/12/2005 7:40:33 AM PDT by Grendel9
Wed Oct 12 2005 00:54:39 ET
Before President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, called influential Christian leader James Dobson to assure him that Miers was a conservative evangelical Christian, Dobson said in remarks scheduled for broadcast Wednesday on his national radio show.
The LA TIMES reports: In that conversation, which has been the subject of feverish speculation, Rove also told Dobson that one reason the president was passing over better-known conservatives was that many on the White House short list had asked not to be considered, Dobson said, according to an advance transcript of the broadcast provided by his organization, Focus on the Family.
Dobson said that the White House had decided to nominate a woman, which reduced the size of the list, and that several women on it had then bowed out.
``What Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it,'' Dobson said, according to the transcript.
This is what I thought early on. The process is disgusting. Nobody in their right mind, who has led a full life, would permit themselves and their family to be put through the humiliation. Miers is single, she sounds up for the fight.
Doesn't pass the smell test. All of them? What's Janice Rogers Brown got to fear? They just confirmed her judgeship not long ago. Now they're going to question their own judgement?
Janice Rogers Brown.
Clearly put, yes or no, is she one who opted out?
Thats my question as well.
Did Janice Brown opt out herself? Or was she cut by the
White House?
OK so what's your strategy is she did opt out? OK what's your strategy if she was "cut" as you put it?
A) Use Political Correctness and Quotas to fill positions
B) Don't fight back
These creeps are so unacquainted with genuine good character they could not recognize it if it smacked them square in the smug, snarly mugs.
They confirmed her after four years and after it was made part of a "deal." That "deal" would have been off this time around. Who wants to go through that again?
This is exactly what Pukin' Dog posted over the week end. He said that he had an inside source who told him that all the other candidates felt that they had something in their background, either famiy related or professional, which would be used to attack them if they were nominated. They just didn't want to subject themselves and their families to the politics of personal destruction.
Oh, I dunno...somebody who wanted one of the most prestigious gigs in the country?!? I'm sorry. I'm just not buying that judges are opting out of claiming the dream job in their own little corner of history because it would be, like, such a hassle.
It is not just the nominee who is put under the microscope. It is also close family members, ie children.IIRC there was some mention of Roberts adopted children and the questioning of thier South American heritage and the legality of the adoption proceedures.
True enough. But, I also think that there was a high probability that she wouldn't have been confirmed which makes it more difficult to have the stomach for such a protracted fight.
You're exactly right.
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