You missed one, but it was subtle:
"ordinary Republicans beyond the Washington Beltway"
The 'elitist' slam is right there--it's only the 'Beltway' conservatives that don't support Miers, donchaknow?
Good catch.
If the Miers proponents had powerful substantive supporting evidence, it would have been out weeks ago. Threats, shame and intimidation are coalition BUSTING tools, not coalition BUILDING tools. And we come full circle to the "what was President Bush thinking?" discussion.
Just for the thread, back to Leonard Leo, it seems he quietly resigned his WH assignment on the 19th.
Several members of the Federalist Society who know Mr. Leo have said that they think he is only backing Miss Miers out of loyalty to the Bush administration rather than support on the merits.Mr. Leo said that he announced his departure in an Oct. 19 e-mail and that it was "effective immediately."
But as of yesterday, even Republicans working closely with him on the nomination said they had no idea Mr. Leo had relinquished his duties.
Mr. Leo had worked as the "campaign manager," organizing the massive support among conservatives for the confirmation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., according to a source close to Mr. Leo. But with the deep disappointment among conservatives over the Miers nomination, "there's really no campaign here," the source said.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051027-012613-4099r_page2.htm
1) She has real world experience, you Elitist!
2) You just hate women, you Sexist!
3) You just never liked the President, you Bush-Hater!
4) THIS Republican President Bush has never appointed a non-conservative to the SCOTUS as far as you know, so trust Bush, you Traitor!
5) You never supported Bush anyway, you Third Party Freak!
6) You never supported Bush anyway, You Buchananite Buckethead!
7) You never supported Bush anyway, You Tancredoite Nutjob!
8) You never supported Bush anyway, You Border Controlling Racist!
9) Let her have her say in the hearings instead of using her actual words against her, you dumb Dittohead, you!
10) You didn't fight Ginsburg like this, roll over now, too!
11) You're only helping the Democrats, you closet liberal!
12) You're only a small group according to the polls, we're the large group, so shut up!
13) We SAID she was an Evangelical--what more do you want, you nit-picking God-hater!?!?
14) Mike Brown likes her, and anyone who doesn't is a leftist tool!
15) But Bush has promised [insert promise of future bone, e.g., border control, budgetary restraint, etc., here] out to the conservatives, can't they give up the most important branch of the government to his most favoritest pal?
16) She can bowl, dammit!
So now, if there is a post by a Miers skeptic, say, where they post Miers' actual words and this strikes the moonbots' as grounds for character assassination or some other similar form of 'argument,' they just type in the numbers as if they were hangin' at the Automat. Here's an example of how this would work:
LibertarianInExile: In two speeches, Ms. Miers used the usual pro-choice code words about abortion, and she used Janet Reno and Justice Ginsburg as examples of female success stories!
Miers fan: #1! #2! #9! #3! #5!
With the ad hominem attacks all properly classified this way, the ubiquitous Miers threads and threadjackings will probably not be as NEARLY distracting from the usual FR experience, wherein we make fun of stupid Democrat tricks and all act like we're conservatives!