Where is Bush going to find the support in the Senate for a Conservative Judge? There are roughly 40-45 "bush-bots" who will support a conservative... it's not enough!
With the extreme rightwing and the Democrats teaming up Miers didn't stand a chance. Now we will be fighting a losing battle. It's a battle that the pencil pushers wanted so they can sell books and newspapers. The pundit will win either way now.
It sad but this issue has weaken the Republican majority. It is now consider to be an insult to be a Bush supporter... We are called names like "bushbots" and are being driven off this board. Too bad.
you won't see a Luttig or Rogers-Brown. but there is a thread running now with a list of possible candidates - plenty of women candidates who are not "flash points", yet have solid judicial records nonetheless. let's see McCain lead the charge to vote one of them down, and then campaign for president in 2008.
We won't know until he nominates one. But from your question, can I infer that you think Roberts is less than conservative?
With the extreme rightwing and the Democrats teaming up Miers didn't stand a chance.
What are you? Harry Reid? "Extreme right wing?" Give me a break. Anyone who is not an originalist is not a conservative. Period. There's nothing extreme about it. Either the words mean what they say, or they don't. No grey allowed.
Now we will be fighting a losing battle.
The pro-Miers crowd sounds very, very French.
It sad but this issue has weaken the Republican majority. It is now consider to be an insult to be a Bush supporter... We are called names like "bushbots" and are being driven off this board. Too bad.
That's because this isn't a Republican forum. It's a conservative forum. You don't support the personality or the party, you support the ideas. In this case, supporting conservatism meant bucking the president, which we successfully did. It's a very happy day. At least now we have hope.
JeffersonRepublic.com wrote: "We are called names like "bushbots" and are being driven off this board. Too bad."
No one has asked you to leave this board, and how can you possibly be "driven" off? We can debate the issues without resorting to personal attacks. I hadn't thought about it before, but the term "Bushbot" does imply you are unable to make up your own mind on the issues. My apologies if I've used it against you.
"Where is Bush going to find the support in the Senate for a Conservative Judge?"
Since when is the Senate tasked with approving the nominees political ideology?