Right Wing News (rightwingnews.com): "Disaster, Thy Name Is Harriet Miers"

[expatriot]

Wow, this has really pissed off Bush's base.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/

George Bush's decision to appoint Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is bitterly disappointing.

Miers is a Bush crony with no real conservative credentials, who leapfrogged legions of more deserving judges just because she was Bush's pal. She used to be Bush's staff secretary for God's sake and now she's going to the Supreme Court while people like Michael Luttig, Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown & Emilio Garza are being left on the sidelines.

To merely describe Miers as a terrible pick is to underestimate her sheer awfulness as a selection.

People didn't like Roberts' track record? Miers has never been a judge, so she has almost no track record. She's 60 years old, which is getting up there for a Supreme Court selection. Not only will she not excite the base like a Janice Rogers Brown, Miers' selection will lead to a wave of attacks on the President by conservatives. Moreover, not only is there no guarantee that Miers will be another "Scalia or Thomas," it's an open question whether she'll be as conservative as Sandra Day O'Connor.

Keep in mind that we're talking about a woman who has donated to Al Gore, Lloyd Bentsen, & the Democratic National Committee before. You want a candidate who has "Souter" written all over her? You want a candidate who can't be trusted to overturn Roe v. Wade? Well, her name is Harriet Miers.

This is undoubtedly the worst decision of Bush's entire presidency so far.

[jaxx]

1. Miers ties to Bush's NG scandal

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002383.html

[Laelth]

2. Sounds like Brer Rabbit!

"Puhleeeease, don't throw me in the briar patch!"

I'm not buying it. Here's why:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2130848&mesg_id=2130848

-Laelth

[MrBenchley]

3. The move stinks of flop sweat

Over the weekend, there's news that Chimpy might be tied to Plamegate...and he rushes the first stooge he can find out in front of the cameras...

[WLKjr]

4. what base?

all 50 of them over at FR????

[ginnyinWI]

5. also at Redstate.org

Some say they are done with Bush, can't believe they campaigned for him, that he's a moron, that they are going to join the Consitution Party, that the Bush presidency is over, etc etc. This site is not like FreeRepublic; they are more rational--but still are really reacting negatively.

www.redstate.org

[Goldeneye]

6. I'm not worried.

The freepers will come around. I bet Rove and Gannon are working on the blogs right now. Remember the wingnuts didn't like Roberts at first either.