Newsview: Strategy on Miers Backfiring [View All]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -

The White House is trying to have it both ways in marketing Harriet Miers to disgruntled Republicans.

To conservatives, the president's aides talk up a 1989 document showing she held clear anti-abortion views. Then they pivot and tell everyone else those were just the personal views of a candidate for the Dallas City Council and not a sign of how she might vote on the Supreme Court.

Bush emphasized last week that "part of Harriet Miers' life is her religion." Almost immediately, White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained that too much was being made of her membership in an evangelical Christian church.

Bush said he knows her heart and that she won't change. Except she has. She was a Catholic when she was young. And she was a Democrat who turned Republican.

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