the take on Miers from hate radio in a red state

[Kevin Spidel]

They are pissed at the neocon softball... are declaring the repugs need new leadership. They feel that Miers is a stealth candidate for Bush, and want to see Santorum and others rise up to lead the party.


hmmmm....

as Will would say...

EXPLOIT THE RIFT!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052505X.shtml

[Arkana]

1. ROTFLMAO

Let Santorum (R-Fecal Matter) lead the party. The Democrats wouldn't even need to go to work in the morning to oppose them.

[Dhalgren]

4. Do Democrats go to work in the mornings?

[Arkana]

9. True, sometimes I wonder...

but you get my point.

[Bumblebee]

2. Yup. He was very clever with Roberts; blew it with this one!

[atommom]

3. "Neocon softball"???

:rofl:

At least some people within the Repub party are striking back against what it's become!

[Kevin Spidel]

5. they are pissed that Bush didn't have the "balls" to...

take on a fight for owens, or other fundy radicals. The right is pissed! They are saying he lobbed a softball and already declared victory for the dems.

Meanwhile, we will sit here and crituqe her non existance judicial past, and have fun with this one!

[Bumblebee]

13. I do think it's good news all around. She will probably

be torpedoed by a combo of liberals and Brownback/Santorum-type Republicans, and we will have fun watching it.

[Dhalgren]

6. What does this line mean?

They feel that "Miers is a stealth candidate for Bush". I don't get the meaning of this; can you elaborate? TIA...

[Kevin Spidel]

8. accourding to the dj's and callers...

that is a "Safe pick" from inside his team, versus a fundi with hard core credentials as a fundi. Such as, Pracilla Owens, etc.

[still_one]

7. don't believe it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2130848

[CardInAustin]

10. I'll back that....

I for one would LOVE to see Santorum and his ilk take over the Republican Party. The Dems could win even without a unified coherent message.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. I wouldn't love that.

I think you'd have to be insane to love that. The corporate wing of the Republican Party will definitely ride with the Fecal Matter, as he's all about tax cuts and being a general corporate whore. Meanwhile, this is a guy, possibly one of the only prominent Repugs left who will actually invigorate the theocratic wing of the Republican party. I'm sorry, but I fear Santorum more than ANY other Republican.

[CardInAustin]

14. I would....

Because while WE consider the Republican Party to be far right, the average American does not. It is my belief that if the average American paid close enough attention to the Rep's, they would be uncomfortable with how far right they have become. Somebody like Santorum would not even try to hide his religious-right nature. He would come right and bash the gays and non-christians....which would make moderate republicans and everyone left of them respond with the Seinfeldian, "Good luck with all of THAT!"

I just think someone like Santorum would run the party into the ground....which would be fine with me.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. I just think there are more religious nuts than corporate nuts.

and I certainly don't want them energized.

[RSchewe]

12. Bill Kristol: Conservatives ‘Demoralized’ over Miers

Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 10:00 a.m. EDT

Bill Kristol: Conservatives ‘Demoralized’ over Miers

Conservatives are "pretty demoralized” over President Bush’s surprise nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, says Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.

Kristol noted, in an interview with Fox News, that with liberal Republican Sandra Day O’Connor leaving the court, Bush had a unique opportunity to put his conservative stamp on the Supreme Court.

Instead, Kristol suggests Bush "flinched.”

"It looks like he capitulated,” a pessimistic Kristol said. The conservative commentator noted she has absolutely no judicial record, and he fears she will be "another O’Connor, another Souter.”

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/3/100307.shtml


Republicans being against a Supreme Court candidate doesn't mean a whole lot except that they may not be right wing enough for them. That being said, there are some Republicans that seem unhappy, likely because they expected a more extreme candidate. I wonder how they feel about her contributing money to Al Gore...

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. How dare they trash her because she's a woman!

Those dirty sexist pigs! *wink*

What are they meaning when they say she is a "stealth candidate"?