Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
We shall see.
"They want someone on the court who will not only vote what they consider to be the right way, but who can articulate their arguments in written opinions."
Not this conservative. What I want in a nominee is a conservative intellectual force that leads the court (and the legal system) to a more sane understanding of the proper role of the courts in our society. As I've said before on other threads, I'd rather have a brilliant jurist who gives me 70% of the votes I want than a mediocrity who votes "correctly" all the time. The White House's only argument the past few weeks has been that Miers would vote correctly (and they offered no evidence to support that contention). I feel fairly confident that the political commentators who led the charge against Harriet feel the same way.
This is what I have said all along, Mo.
This has not been about disagreeing with the President's choice nor voicing that.
It has been about unfair, leftist-style attacks on her character, and denying her the right to a fair hearing.
The right has now done exactly what they hate in the left.
These days, a history on an Appellate Court appears the best way to determine that. I'm open to other ways, but most of all I want to end up with an originalist. Someone free of the bonds of penumbra's and such. The Constitution says what it says. We don't need soothsayers to divine it.
You say that like it's a BAD thing...
;)
Her Christianity was mocked on this forum.
The name "Church Lady" rings a bell
I am not upset that the nomination failed. That's poltiics. I am disgusted at the tactics and destructive arguments used by those who wanted it killed.
Who cares how many conservatives you have voted for if you're ready to betray us on every crucial issue...
That's the difference between you and me. I'm not worried about any personal sense of "betrayal." I have a practical sense of politics and what it takes to build winning coalitions. I have yet to see that same understanding demonstrated by the uber-right, which constantly finds itself disgruntled about something or another. Most of you are the same people who followed Perot over the cliff and gave us the Clinton presidency. Most of you would put a pure demagogue like Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes in elective office if you could.
Ted Olson has long been among 3 choices at the top of my list. He is a brilliant legal scholar, is incredibly qualified, has served as Solicitor General and knows the Supreme Court intimately.
Ted Olson is a conservative ... and, yes, even though I, too am a woman ... I think it is time to nominate a man this time.
Above all, it would warm my heart for the husband of everyone's favorite conservative icon, Barbara Olson, to become a Justice of the SCOTUS. Who can forget that Barbara was tragically killed on 911 when the plane she was on crashed into the Pentagon. We will never get over the loss of Barbara Olson. We will not soon again see the likes of Barbara's joie de vivre, keen intellect and supreme conservative credentials.
How was she denied anything?
If a person applies for a loan at a bank and then later withdraws the application, has that person been denied anything? Would you insist that the loan committee still evaluate the loan application?
He may well dislike the President. But Kristol is not going to use the Miers opportunity to bring down the Bush administration at the cost of the party and principles he believes in, which was the ludicrous charges made on this thread.
That's right - every person meeting those Constitutional qualifications can run for President - my personal qualifications are somewhat narrower, but that's not the point. Miers was qualified as far as the Constitution required.
"I want Luttig or Alito, but mostly Luttig."
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Only because it was listed as a qualification.
I don't know...I remember black Democrats dismissing Thomas as an "Uncle Tom" and heard no anger from their black constituents, was livid over the nasty, hateful affirmative action, race AND sex jokes leveled against Rice by the left but black Democrat voters apparently loved them, the nasty, hateful affirmative action jokes leveled against Miers by the right....I doubt Brown will fair any better from either side.
Yep and the left will hammer our party for it .. because they have the MSM to give them a stage
Like I said ... they handled this all very poorly
No, USING her christianity as a qualification was mocked on this forum- especially after the white house treid saying religion shouldn't be a factor in his hearing.
It wasa bogus attempt at imparting her with credentials she didn't have.
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