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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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1. Elitist paternalistic Country club republicans like the Rockefellers are extinct and thankfully. We need less fed gov't, of either the Rep or dem strain.
2. Who cares if white trash support originalists, the bottom line is the legal accomplishments as jurists of Luttig, JRB, Clement, Jones, Alita, McConnel, Owen et al, far outweigh those of this Miers person. She is a lightweight and frankly barely more qualified than you or I. Hell, I'd take Ty over her. No offence.
3. Dissent. Do you read the words in my posts or just look at the pics? I will recap for you [SPANKY, SCROLL PAST THIS] After Bush rescinded his "No new taxes promise", I voted against him and for Perot. In 96, I thought the GOP made a shitty nomination, despite the fact that years prior I had been a Dole supporter, and I voted for Perot. In 2000, in protest of another subpar nominee I would have voted for Gore, but for the fact that he supported perjury by the PotUS and in the process helped diminished the office of the President (I was unaware of the national security damage these people had done at that time that would directly result in 3000 dead Americans) [/SPANKY, SCROLL PAST THE ABOVE]
4. Bush just lost the hard right wing of the party which could ensure a Dimwit controlled fed govt for the next decade.
5. His father lied, and now, apparently, Bush has been exposed as a liar too. While not under oath, it is still a huge breach of trust. This may be his lame duck event. Either way, it cements the reality, he is no REagan.
What right thing did his father do, Thomas?
