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.

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.

Today’s round-up of the latest on the Miers nomiination. Polipundit does some nominee daydreaming Thinking about 30 years of intellectual firepower on the Court Captain Ed wonders if religion will prove a hinge for Miers Well, it certainly won’t make…

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?

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.

I’ll give you my link, anyway. Same theme.

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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.