....they are releasing Harriet 2.0, focusing on an inch-by-inch ground game. The president has conservative allies of his own, chief among them a Jedi of Beltway combat, Newt Gingrich. New talking points were issued to them late last week, focusing on Miers's rather thin list of qualifications—bar-association presidencies, corporate legal work and a term as a member of the Dallas City Council. The talking points were notable for their absence of even a passing reference to her religion.
....The idea—the hope—is to generate some positive buzz with testimonials. Strategists have lined up endorsements and op-eds to be doled out day by day, one of them an Oval Office pageant of praise featuring former members of the Texas Supreme Court. Miers will work her way through a series of office visits with senators, with a fairly heavy emphasis on Republicans who have kept their distance so far.
The Houston Chronicle reports Miers already is picking up support among business leaders.
Democrats ought to come out in support of Miers. She is causing a split amoung conservatives, which will only help them in 2006. As Reppublicn David Hynes writes:
Instead, President Bush nominated not one but two relative moderates who enjoy wide bi-partisan support from liberal Democrats and are unlikely to ever vote to overturn the monstrous and extra constitutional Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Bush's appointment of two non-controversial, Souter-like, largely blank slate Supreme Court nominees serves two purposes—one obvious and one hidden. It has not only given his liberal opponents less ammo to oppose them with, but it has given his erstwhile conservative supporters, which otherwise might vehemently protest these moderate, non-ideological Supreme Court nominees, less ammo to oppose them as well.
Which means, according to Hynes,
President Bush has done what even his conservative doubters like myself failed to predict. He has moved the Supreme Court to the left. I had predicted that he would nominate one solid pro-life conservative and one "moderate" to the Supreme Court who would ultimately be exposed as being supportive of legalized abortion thus maintaining the current 6-3 balance between supporters and opponents of legalized abortion, a course of action argued by the likes of even an archliberal Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) only a few months ago.
Instead, President Bush nominated not one but two relative moderates who enjoy wide bi-partisan support from liberal Democrats and are unlikely to ever vote to overturn the monstrous and extra constitutional Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Bush's appointment of two non-controversial, Souter-like, largely blank slate Supreme Court nominees serves two purposes—one obvious and one hidden. It has not only given his liberal opponents less ammo to oppose them with, but it has given his erstwhile conservative supporters, which otherwise might vehemently protest these moderate, non-ideological Supreme Court nominees, less ammo to oppose them as well.
