Ladies and gents, after a day where many conservatives (including me) wondered just what the heck he was doing, methinks the President may have very well delivered on giving us a conservative nominee - if the stories coming out about her are any indication. Here are some of the latest headlines and conservative commentary on Miers:
Miers said to be on `extreme end’ of pro-life movement
Via Drudge, who has posted a scoop to an upcoming NYTimes piece at his site: Miers Found Christ, Turned Republican
ST reader and fellow blogger Seth posts some background on Ms. Miers that should be of interest to those of us who have serious questions on her nomination.
Thomas Lifson, who is the editor and publisher of The American Thinker, says "Don’t misunderestimate Miers". Polipundit: "I’ve had a day to reflect on the Miers nomination, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is an exceedingly good decision. Let’s line up the objections and knock ‘em down." Read the whole thing. Anchoress has a great post up with some good advice for conservatives on the Miers nomination and also points out that Miers formerly being a Democrat should not be held against her (Anchoress, like me, used to be a liberal too). Patrick Ruffini says: Chill! And starts a "Coalition of the Chillin’: SCOTUS Division" Michelle Malkin links here and here to continued skepticism from conservatives on Miers nomination. — It makes sense that perhaps the President wanted to throw off liberals who were expecting an obvious conservative like Janice Rogers Brown because she has a clear record that Senate Dems and moderate Republicans would thoroughly dog. What I don’t think he - nor many others in the WH banked on - is the high degree of outrage that came from conservative voices yesterday and today over the nomination. It seems that the WH went on the "they should trust me" theme, meaning that those loyal to the President (like conservatives who have stood by him faithfully through the highs and lows of the administration) should have trusted his instincts in picking who he thought was the right choice. But as David Frum said yesterday: Nor is it safe for the president’s conservative supporters to defer to the president’s judgment and say, "Well, he must know best." The record shows I fear that the president’s judgment has always been at its worst on personnel matters. I agree. But in the light of day, and with the debates still raging within conservative circles about the nomination of Harriet Miers, after what I’ve read about her I’m starting to feel a little bit better about her nomination. That’s not to say that I no longer have concerns and questions - I do, but as the facts start to come out, the more and more conservative she appears to be. (Cross-posted at Blogs For Bush)
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Could you tell me what facts that have come out have any bearing on her judicial philosophy?
In the presidents press conference, he asserted that she is a conservative, and a laundry list of other soundbites that were intended to pacify conservatives. What everybody seems to be glossing over was that he also said, “…she doesn’t change.”
Excuse me? She changed her party affiliation — which is a sure sign of becoming a grown up — even if she did wait until she was in her forties to manage it. Is she still donating to Democrat political candidates, as she did during the Reagan administration?
She found Christ — well and good. However, there are several whackos of faith — Phred Phelps, anyone? Jesse Jackson ring any bells? Faith is not an assurance of conservative principles. And it is still a change.
It would seem Bush doesn’t know Miers nearly as well as he would have us believe.
I remain unconvinced.
Comment by Stoo @ 10/4/2005 - 10:28 pm
60 and single? Where are her cats?
Comment by Walter E. Wallis @ 10/4/2005 - 10:49 pm
Sis, I tried to place a trackback from my blog, but I don’t think I have been very successful.
I’ll give you my link, anyway. Same theme.
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Newton, your trackback worked. See above under “trackbacks/pingbacks”
–ST
Comment by newton @ 10/4/2005 - 10:56 pm
Thank you, Sis!
Comment by newton @ 10/4/2005 - 11:40 pm
Hi Stoo,
I think most of the facts regarding her judicial philosophy will come out during the confirmation hearing - as much as she can say, anyway. In the meantime, we’ll get little bits and pieces in the media (as we are now) but not much more, though I’m sure they’ll dig like crazy.
As far as concerns over her changing, that’s the thing that worries me the least about her. Reading about her change from Democrat to Republican after finding God resonates with me because of my switch from D to R, and God did play a factor in my switch too although I had “found” him before my ‘conversion’ (calling it a conversion sounds a bit weird to me - LOL - but that’s the best word I can use for it outside of ’switch’). I know the profound change in my life that occurred as a result of my realizing more and more that the views I was slowly coming to support did not fall in line with the Dem/liberal way of thinking and I suspect that is what happened with her. I’m drawing on personal experience with my own change more than anything, and as Brian from Iowa Voice commented in another thread it’s obviously easier to know that my change is permanent and that I’m truly a conservative because people read my views here everyday, but I’m just trying to put a bit of personal perspective on it, for what it’s worth. Drawing on anecdotal evidence, I know others who have switched from D to R, and others still who have gone from R to D and it’s one of those things I think that once you’ve been down that philosophical road and abandoned it, you generally don’t consider going back because that’s what it is: moving backwards rather than forward (at least that’s what it would be to me).
Re: the Phelps comment … the President has known Miers for ten years. I don’t really think if she were a Phelps-type ‘Christian conservative’ that the President would nominate her, do you? I mean Phelps has a severely perverted view of Christianity that I don’t think even most of your very hardline Christian conservatives would share and the President, who is indeed a Christian conservative is not a hardliner by any stretch.
My main point in blogging about this was not to try and convince people that Miers is necessarily the right person for the job, but to say that maybe we should step back, take a few deep breaths and reassess her conservative credentials as more information comes out about them before we come to a definitive conclusion about her. Just providing some food for thought.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/5/2005 - 12:05 am
The fact is that you never know how they will rule until they actually do(except for Ruth Beader-Ginsburg). Ultimately the wisdom (or lack thereof) of the selections won’t be known until later
Comment by J Rob @ 10/5/2005 - 1:33 am
Welcome home Sister! Looks like we might have the Bush rope a dope of all time going here….
Not only a conservative nominee, but a fundamentalist CHRISTIAN!!!
And since Dems like Reid already embraced her, it will be pretty tough for them to turn around and trash her.
Perhaps we won the fight, without having to fight… pretty smart hunh?
Comment by Mike on Hilton Head Island @ 10/5/2005 - 7:14 am
Quite simply, Miers lacks the intellect, temperment and professional qualification in constitutional law for the position. Bush certianly could have chosen a more qualified candidaterather than a political croney.
This is a life-time appointment to the Supreme Court, not Dallas City Dog Catcher. It astounds me that so many conservatives defending Miers seem to think all that matters are “political credentials” - such vapid arguements may you look rather foolish, as does Mr Bush at this point.
Comment by KO @ 10/16/2005 - 5:29 am
KO sounds like he/she lacks the intellect. /end sarcasm
Why is it that you think you can so callously just talk about someone’s intellect. I’m waiting for the hearings. Are you?
Looking foolish? I’ll leave that to the quick judging liberal KO. Ooooh. Knock Out.
Comment by Baklava @ 10/16/2005 - 8:23 pm
I’m waiting for the hearings too, Bak. I’m not as worried about this nomination as some of my fellow conservatives are either because of the fact that as far as judicial nominees W hasn’t let me down yet. He might have irritated me with some other moves he’s made over the years, but his judicial selections have, for the most part, been solid.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/16/2005 - 9:55 pm