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Posted on 10/25/2005 10:55:57 AM PDT by bigsky
A 30-second TV ad is set to air tomorrow, Wednesday, that some believe may be as effective at helping stop the Harriett Miers confirmation as the Swift Boat ads were in helping stop John Kerry.
BetterJustice.org, a conservative grass-roots organization, created and funded the hard-hitting anti-Miers (but pro-Bush) ad. The organization's board of directors includes several otherwise staunch Republican stalwarts, such as David Frum and Linda Chavez.
"Miers is no more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than I am to be a sumo wrestler!" So stated the so very un-sumo-like Ann Coulter.
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net ...
I was thinking today that if Miers is confirmed and Fitzgerald doesn't hand down any indictments, MSNBC might go off the air.
An oxymoron?
Patriotic, America-first, American conservatives do, as well; what good is saving a party if the country is sinking?
The GOP needs to come out with a good counteroffensive. Something more serious than insults.
If Bush fights the right, he might win back the GOP
Forget Harriet Miers. The firestorm consuming Washington is not just about her. It's about who controls the GOP: the conservative movement or President Bush?
For his party's sake – and the country's – I hope the president stands his ground. He has the chance to do the right thing for the most people, as another Texan, Lyndon Johnson, did on civil rights. But unlike LBJ, Mr. Bush also can solidify a national majority for his party.
Mr. Bush had weathered "growing pains" with the conservative movement long before he nominated Ms. Miers to the Supreme Court. That's almost impossible to imagine today, given how much of his presidency he has handed over to them since 2001. Deep tax cuts. A pledge to ban gay marriage. Even the vice presidency.
None of that has stopped some conservatives from taking their shots at him. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., leads a movement that's dead-set against the president's desire for a more humane immigration policy. Anti-war conservatives like columnist Robert Novak believe Iraq is a huge mistake and have said so repeatedly. And limited-government conservatives like former Reagan aide Bruce Bartlett are furious about the president's spending habits.
When the Miers nomination came along, well, that was just too much for some on the right. Icons like Robert Bork wonder whether the president is actually hostile to conservatives.
LBJ would sympathize, if he were still with us.
Mr. Johnson risked his standing with conservatives on Capitol Hill when he fought for equal opportunities for blacks – in effect, calling out the Southern Democrats who had been his natural allies from his days in the Senate.
When LBJ gave civil rights legislation a strong shove, his conservative friends balked mightily. Historian William Leuchtenburg writes that when Sen. James Eastland heard about John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Mississippi Democrat exclaimed to his wife: "Good God, Lyndon's president. He's gonna pass a lot of this damn fool stuff."
Frum revealed his true colors long ago, with his smear of Pat Buchanan, which was undeniably an attempt to, as you say, "destroy another human being." But you were cheering on that attempt of destruction, as I recall.
That's exactly what they want.
Don't be so short sighted.
They're not short sighted; they're looking at the long range prospect; they actually believe a defeat of the GOP would be GOOD, as in their minds, we will then turn to the UBER conservatives and beg them to run the party.
Precisely.
Listen to who is NOT talking about Harriet Miers; that's all you need to know.
Someone should tell Ann Coulter that sumo has weight classes and female participants.
If she is not equipped to grapple with the monumental Constitutional issues that will be placed on the Court docket in the coming years-and thus far, there's been absolutely no evidence disclosed to demonstrate that she's equipped to the task-then she does not deserve a seat on the SCOTUS.
Neil Degrasse Tyson is a pretty brilliant astronomer, but I don't think anything in his curriculum vitae qualifies him to be an associate justice on the SC.
I am his "own side."
And he is not fighting with me.
I'm waiting for the hearings.
I can't buy your logic anymore. Souter and Stevens are either as liberal or more liberal than the Clinton appointments. Miers will be just like them. Her liberal stances outnumber her conservative ones, and there's no reason to believe she won't sprint left.
Terrible Republican choices for the court far outnumber the good ones for more than 50 years. This nomination is in that tradition of bad ones.
Those of us in the GOP aren't going to sit back and let YOU kill it.
Believe that.
And just how many Senators have voiced their support for these talking heads?????
I am his side too. That's the problem. We are fractured, my friend.
You mean the principle of having a qualified and proven CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court Justice on the Supreme Court?
It will be a very sweet thing to witness :)
Hmmmm. The ad didn't portray that message to me. Guess I'm a dunce.
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