I don't believe for one second that conservatives are against H Miers

[Poiuyt]

I think it is a ruse. They are trying to trick Democrats into thinking that she's a moderate. There's no way on earth that Bush/Cheney/Rove would appoint someone who is NOT a RW ideologue and would NOT vote exactly the way they want for the next 30 years. That goes for Roberts, too. He's no moderate.

[flowomo]

1. don't buy it....

a whole lot of Repubs with big bullhorns rip the shit out of Bush... on the assumption that everybody knows it's code for "she's our girl"? No way.

[Tace]

3. I Believe The Conservatives Really Have Had It With Bushco

I think it's genuine.

For example, there's a hard-RW pundit at National Review, John Derbyshire, I believe, who's trashing the entire GOP. "I'm a conservative, not a Republican," he said recently in one of his columns.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I think that myself sometimes

but, I have no idea.

[PDittie]

4. Look:

If she withdraws, then they get Janice Rogers Brown. Or Priscilla Owen. Or Edith Jones.

Does it make sense now why they're screaming? They've wanted to fight this battle for decades. * has denied them the jihad they have lusted after for at least a generation.

They're actually the only ones who have the power to derail her. It ought to be fascinating to see if they can succeed. Frankly, I don't think they will (succeed in derailing her, that is).

As someone said recently, the Christian conservative base is like the lions in Siegfried and Roy's show: they used to hear fingers snap, and they obeyed. Now, they attack.

Pop some corn. Watch the freak show.

Think of it this way: it seems as if we lose either way, confirmed or now -- and in a sense, we do. But so do the Pukes. Either way, Harriet the Fragrance in or not, they lose. Either piss off the fundies and they pull away, or appease them and feed the beast. Neither is an appetizing option (bad pun, I know).

[NNadir]

8. I agree with you.

Either way we lose; we cannot win.

There is going to be real tragedy coming very close to home.

[MrBenchley]

9. Harriet isn't nearly as bad as a Brown or Owen would be

and she's not much less qualified than Judge Frenchfry was...

What is really funny (and apparent to many Americans) is that the right wing is up in arms because they fear that when she says she'll be impartial SHE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE IMPARTIAL. (And having Chimpy off to the side waving his arms and announcing that THE FIX IS IN is even funnier).

[barbaraann]

5. I disagree.

I think you're underestimating the visceral desire of the pro-life crowd for an unfettered patriarchal right of men to "spread their seed" and produce large numbers of offspring. They are worried that when push comes to shove Harriet Miers, a single and childless woman, won't come down on the side of forced childbearing.

[emulatorloo]

6. She is not bat-shit crazy enough for them

They truly are afraid of another Souter.

OTOH apparently Karl-a-few-days-away-from-an-indictment-Rove has assured Dobson than she is bat-shit crazy.

Could be that they are just fed up w Bush and this nomination is just their excuse to turn on him like they have wanted to for a while.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. YES THEY ARE. She will retire from the court after a few years and

follow W. back to Texas. She loves W. more than she loves a Conservative Court. It is a wasted appointment as far as the Far Right is concerned, designed only to protect * and Co. from incarceration for crimes.

[marions ghost]

11. funny I have that same feeling....

that she would resign after awhile, after her job serving the BFEE is done. Thinking this because she's being catapulted into the position on such thin qualifications. She's not intellectually engaged with the breadth and the depth of Law, only on how you use it to get what you want...like the most dedicated of hacks.

[TahitiNut]

10. "PLEASE don't throw me in the Briar Patch!!"

:shrug: :eyes: Or is that the (Stephen) Breyer patch?

[Disturbed]

12. Several top Repubs have said that...

they don't trust the Shrub. That cannot be a good thing for the Bush Admin. can it?

[TahitiNut]

13. Do you believe them? Do you believe Brer Rabbit?

:eyes: