All i've ever wanted is someone who can think for themselves, as long as that someone was a conservative, hispanic, non-white, female. Miers seems to fail on most accounts. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007368 === Miers Finds Few Buyers WASHINGTON--When President Bush nominated Harriet Miers on Monday, we saw it as a missed opportunity. It left us underwhelmed, not appalled. But having spent last evening communing here with some 1,000 conservatives at National Review's 50th anniversary dinner, we see a political disaster in the making. We talked to quite a few people, and we heard not a single kind word about the nomination from anyone who wasn't on the White House staff. A couple of our soundings led us to think that such support as it has received has been more sycophantic than sincere. One putative proponent privately distanced himself* from his public praise of Miers. Another person, whose employer has strongly backed the Miers nomination, told us, "Of course, I disagree wholeheartedly." The White House seems genuinely befuddled by the intensity of conservative opposition, and especially stung by the harsh words of George Will and Trent Lott. The White House position seems to be that Bush gave the Supreme Court an excellent leader in Chief Justice John Roberts (on this point, of course, we agree wholeheartedly), and that what the president was seeking in his second pick was not someone with "sharp elbows" but a reliable "conservative" vote. This is similar to the left's description of Clarence Thomas as a mere follower of Antonin Scalia. If the White House adopting this invidious caricature as its ideal, conservatives have every reason to be angry. Conventional wisdom still has it that Miers is a shoo-in for confirmation. We're not so sure. From what we saw last night, the right is furious at President Bush for appointing someone they see as manifestly underqualified and for ducking a fight with the Democratic left--a fight that, in their view (and ours), would be good for the country, the conservative cause and the Republican Party. Bush may be getting a fight anyway. And while he can laugh off the Angry Left, which would never support him no matter what he did, the Angry Right is a force he'd be a fool to misunderestimate. * Our use of the masculine pronoun is gender-neutral and should not be construed to mean that the person in question is male. Nor should this disclaimer be construed to mean that he is female.
Maybe she has few suitors now, but she is poised to become the hawtest bachelorette inside the beltway since Janet Reno.
and no matter how it looks Harriet Miers IS NOT GAY. Same goes for Nathan Hecht. A Love That Was Benched by Their Careers By Scott Gold and Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writers HOUSTON — He was a country boy who grew up on a wheat farm, she a city girl who played on her high school tennis team. The lives of Nathan Hecht and Harriet E. Miers began to intertwine in the early 1970s, shortly after they finished law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Soon, they were rising stars at the same law firm, and their lives seemed to be converging in every way. They were earnest, ambitious and increasingly affectionate with one another. Friends thought they would get married. Instead, for 30 years, Hecht and Miers — President Bush's Supreme Court nominee — have nurtured a kinship that has entranced and confounded their closest friends. They are traditional conservatives content in a modern, nontraditional relationship, one that leaves plenty of time for their true love, their work, to take center stage. Romantic at times, the relationship has played an important role in their ascent to power — she as White House counsel, he as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where he has served for 15 years. ... -------------------------- This is obviously a piece feed to the MSM by the WH, to assuage conservatives' fear that Harry Miers is not a gay activist waiting to happen. This is what it has come down to
Well they can only do that before the final confirmation vote. Once she is on the court, they will hope her closet door stays locked. I suspect Miers is not gay, just a hard women to love I would also not be surprised if I was wrong.
"He was a country boy who grew up on a wheat farm, she a city girl who played on her high school tennis team." __________________ My God that's bad writing.
Am I the only psycho rightwing nutjob that is going to wait for the confirmation hearings to draw a conclusion or offer an opinion? Man, these right wingers are acting as bad as all of the tree-hugging lefties on here make them out to be.
fair enough, but i don't think the hearings will really tell us anything about her. and there were many other potential choices who would have been far more "obviously" qualified. she may eventually make a fine justice, w obviously made a great choice for chief, soperhaps we should trust his judgement. but it's not that i'm unconvinced by her philosophy,her temperment, or even her intellect- it's that there were so many other choices janice rogers brown he could have made.
Chance, I'm not a right wing Republican. But I can understand their disappointment at Bush not fulfilling his campaign pledge to nominate someone in the mold of Scalia or Thomas. Many of Bush's "core" supporters have waited patiently for the day when the Supreme Court's ideology could be clearly shifted significantly to the right. In fact, for some voters, Supreme Court selection is their single issue. While I don't agree with right wing Republicans on everything, their disappointment at Miers is not hard to understand. If it comes to a vote she will definitely be confirmed. My hunch is she will withdraw if they sense the Republican members of the committee won't vote for her. If another GOP committee member besides Brownback comes out against her, she will withdraw. Bush will then nominate someone who is considered a "safe" conservative. It's very obvious she was only chosen because of her gender. I guess Bush believes in Affirmative Action after all since he said several times in the last couple of weeks diversity would figure in his selection.
Well I'm certainly not a rightwing nutjob or a tree hugging lefty, ufortunately some pines filed a restraining order so I can't hug trees anymore, but I'm waiting to hear her confirmation hearings before forming a definate opinion about her. If her hearings don't go well though it wouldn't surprise me to see her defeated by a Kennedy / Brownback coalition. I don't think GW Bush would withdraw since he's shown a penchant for stubborness about these sort of things.
Nope, Journey: Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
