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Please have a look at this blog entry, posted at National Review today by Jonah Goldberg. I can hear it now: "Goldberg? Just a pudgy neo-con." But please read and consider.

THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF [Jonah Goldberg ]

My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot.

No more.

After reading this story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/21/AR2005102102139.html
I'm officially against Miers. I'm with the Editors , Will, Frum, and Krauthammer.

It's not just that Miers was in favor of racial quotas -- we'd pretty much known that for a while. It's the fundamental confirmation that she's a go-along-with-the-crowd establishmentarian. The White House says that her enthusiastic support for goals, timetables and quotas at the Bar Association says nothing about her views on government race policies. Yeah, right. She simultaneously thought what she was doing was great and important while also believing it would be unconstitutional if the government did the same thing.

The White House says she's an unchanging rock of principle. Uh huh. So have her opinions held constant since the early 1990s? Or have they shifted with the wind? If she's a rock, I don't want her. If she's a weather vane, I don't want her.

I just don't want her.

Start over.

She won't be withdrawn. I'm certain of that.

But say she is, there isn't going to BE another nominee---certainly not one more conservative than her. Hard-line right-wingers won't trust Bush, and will nit-pick every opinion (for ex., J. R. Brown could NOT pass the smell test on the WOT!!) Dems, meanwhile, would be so emboldened, they would oppose anyone.

The White House says she's an unchanging rock of principle. Uh huh. So have her opinions held constant since the early 1990s? Or have they shifted with the wind? If she's a rock, I don't want her. If she's a weather vane, I don't want her.

What makes the DC right wing press so infallible?

A journalist, is a journalist, is a journalist. They are made of flesh and blood just like you and me.

Oh BTW, you do know that Ronald Reagan signed a pro-abortion bill as Gov. of California appx. 10 years before he became President. And Reagan is thought of as the scion of the pro-life movement although he never signed one anti-abortion bill, as President Bush has(the partial birth abortion ban).