Mark Steyn: She's not ideal, but she'll get job done

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn09.html ^ | Oct 9, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[mal]

From President Bush's press conference on Tuesday: Question: "Are you still a conservative?"

The president: "Am I what?"

Any port in a storm, especially after the storm has passed. I said the other day that the minute Hurricane Katrina hit, the media started scampering around like Munchkins singing "Ding Dong, The Bush Is Dead." They always do, and it always fails. In terms of destroying Bush and the Republicans, Katrina was a total bust. Insofar as it has any political impact, it's likely to make Louisiana less Democrat. That's it.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

From President Bush's press conference on Tuesday: Question: "Are you still a conservative?"

The president: "Am I what?"

Apparently, the sheer unfamiliarity of the word was what threw him.

[goldstategop]

Conservatives are howling because they think big. President Bush promised a Thomas... and delivered a Miers. Its a sin not to slay all the Democrats at once. They have to have the Mother Of All Battles now. To Bush and Karl Rove who take a longer term view, that's self-destructive. A few baby steps at the time is the key to a long term conservative majority. And they're betting once Miers proves herself on the court, the base will come home and love the President in November. Now, it may not be our cup of tea but as the inmitable Mark Steyn points out, you take what you can get:

She's thus another representative of Bush and Karl Rove's belief in incrementalism: that the Republican majority can be made a permanent feature of the landscape if you build it one small brick at a time. Miers is, at best, such a brick, at a time when conservatives were hoping Bush would drop a huge granite block on the court.

We think in terms of apocalpytism but Bush and Rove are keenly aware things in Washington move along in terms of decades. Its still very much a liberal town. And there's no sense in jeopardize Republican political power for the sake of grand sweeping gesture that would mobilize the Democrats to storm the palace.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[patriciaruth]

Yes, President Bush is a Republican.

And I gather from your snide tone, that you're not, although you have been forced from time to time to vote for Republicans, as no one to your liking was electable.

[Cuttnhorse]

"Apparently, the sheer unfamiliarity of the word was what threw him."

LOL! Stein's article is right on the money.
Did you catch the cartoon where Bush is at a substance abuse meeting and he is saying, "Hi, I'm George and I am a spendaholic", and all the attendees are Donkeys saying, "HI GEORGE". Perfect.

[Northern Yankee]

According to an old boyfriend, Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, she packs heat -- a Smith & Wesson .45 -- which I can say with certainty the other lady justice, the far-left Ruth Bader Ginsburg, never has. She also's personally very opposed to abortion.

Gee... I wonder what Harry Reid say about this?

[Coldwater Creek]

I cannot believe that I am going to have to agree with Dem Tom Harkin that Conservatives are acting despicable.

[TheRobb7]

"But Bush, for good or ill, believes in himself as the real Third Way deal: It's a remarkable achievement to get damned day in and day out as the new Hitler when 90 percent of the time you're Tony Blair with a ranch."

You can bet this quote will show up in a future edition of "Did You Hear What They Said?" on The Perspective.

http://www.therobb7.blogspot.com

[Grut]

'Incrementalism' is the pubbies' way of marking time until the Democrats take charge again.

[Northern Yankee]

Mark Steyn Ping

[goldstategop]

Granted she's nothing to look at and no one knows anything about her. Bush and Rove want the liberals to step into a bag of excrement again - and they will because they think they're the smartest people in Washington. All they need is for conservatives to realize that slab of granite they were expecting isn't the best means of shifting the Court rightwards.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Guenevere]

I don't have time to read this....off to church.

So is Steyn against her too?

[TheRobb7]

So is Steyn against her too?

No.

[goldstategop]

Bush and his Big Government policies are not his cup of tea but in the longer scheme of things they're a piffle next to winning the War On Terror. If Baby Assad falls by next spring, the Democrats will really be hankering then for the days of Katrina.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I gather from your snide tone, that you're not

Then you "gather" idiotically.

[TheRobb7]

Perhaps someone can find that old movie poster of Angie Dickenson in"Big Bad Mama" and photoshop Miers face on it.

A Supreme Court Justice packin' heat....THAT'S justice. (grin)

[TheRobb7]

"Baby Assad"

Syria???

[PositiveCogins]

"Apparently, the sheer unfamiliarity of the word was what threw him."

You got that right.

[PositiveCogins]

"And I gather from your snide tone, that you're not, although you have been forced from time to time to
vote for Republicans, as no one to your liking was electable."

Ah yes go to attack mode. The only defense you have. Bush is not a conservative if he is prove it.

[Peach]

Steyn is great!