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Originally posted by Penske_Account
1. I am more Connecticut than either Bush or you, and I fail to see the relation to the Nutmeg State;
2. Please review the backgrounds of Federal appellate judges Luttig, Jones, and [hi uknowwho!] McConnell (whose nomination, btw, I believe a well known liberal here would support) [/hi uknowwho!], and explain to me how these people are white trash nominees. You or I should have such a distinguished legal pedigree.
3. If this is Bush's strategy, to appease the Dems for future generations, then he is as much of a liar as his dad (who, as far as I am concerned, can burn in hell, assuming there is a hell). I am not convinced of this rationale, but if its true I will formally and publicly eat every word of support I ever gave this nomination and probably not vote R for a while (much as after Bush's dad, I didn't vote R for 8 years). I see this more as pure cronyism, which is only marginally less bad, but still results in a bad nomination. Bush was not elected by the Dems. He was elected by a consituency to which he made certain representations as to what he would do. He likely just breached one of those reps (and a big one)-the level of substantive egregiousness behind that breach is up for speculation.
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1. I mean Connecticut in the sense that Miers appears to be a socially moderate, fiscal conservative - a Connecticut moderate, possibly even "Rockefeller"* republican;
2. The nominees you mention are obviously not white trash, and you know I was not saying they were. I was saying that many of the people who support such "originalists" are of thw white trash persuasion. Not all, mind you... just many;
3. You will vote GOP because you will have no other acceptable economic option;
4. Bush is doing the GOP a favor. Nobody wins if the SCOTUS goes hard right. Bush is avoiding a whiplash pendulum shift to the left in the next elections. If he nominated a right wing imbecile stupid enough to start issuing radical rulings and overturning sacred cows of jurisprudence, you'd piss off the moderate GOP vote.
5. You can't give it all away to the rabid right. We live in a country of 280 million. 10 million of us should not be able to control what everyone else does by acting like children and threatening to pull their votes if they don't get a justiice who gets behind their pet issues. Bush is doing the right thing here, as his father did in this situation. He's doing the right thing for the country and his party.
* Thought extinct.
