I actually thought Harriet Miers would have been better, but people here attacked her and I don’t recall why. It might have been something in her past that triggered the fanatical anti-immigration folks here, who have killled many a good candidate and opened the door to the Obama vote-getting amnesties. But that’s another matter altogether.
After that, Bush picked somebody he knew would be safe...a good manager with solid credentials but at the same time “moderate.”. And moderate is a gateway drug. They always go on to be raving liberals.
That said, I’m not sure Roberts was really being liberal here. Frankly, his whole opinion is so full of contradictions and irrationalities that it’s hard to say what he was being.
Miers had ZERO judicial experience. She was a total unknown.
Bush tried to sell her by saying she was good people, trust me.
Yea, sure George.
Still beating the Harriet Miers dead horse? Astounding.
“fanatical anti-immigration folks”
Really? So I guess you are soft on immigration?
It was Alito not Roberts who was nominated after Miers was pulled. Do you think Miers would have been better than Alito?
And what exactly is "fanatical" when a people, who have been admitting over 1 million legal immigrants a year for decades, and granted 3 million illegals Amnesty 25 years ago, on the condition that the illegal invasion would then be halted - to receive only as "gratitude" unending invasion and demands for more amnesty - have had enough and say so?
But every invasion needs a fifth column to detract from a country's defenders.
It's pretty surprising how many have recently posted something similar to that. But Roberts was Bush's first SC nominee, and Miers was nominated for the second vacancy. Then when the uproar caused Miers to withdraw, Bush nominated Sam Alito who has proven to be a solid conservative, unlike Roberts.