Using the Cap'n Ed Categories as Modifed by the Commisar.
I am a member of the Rebel Alliance and, lets face it, with her strong support for things like the Paytoilet act being presented by the administration surrogates to me that pretty much writes her off as being "Conservative". Rumors that she has been Pro-Affirmative action in the U of Mich case really makes that solid.
However I've not seen her as a woman who has the mental will to keep from getting pulled toward the Anthony Kennedy side of the court. She also hasn't really held a position of this 'heft' before and could get seduced by fame. So in that Sense i could also be part of the "Not Qualified" rebel alliance... but lets face it she is a US citizen and she can breath so I think that meets the constitutional muster of qualifications.
But what really gets me are things like Ed Gillispe and the RNC chair laying out the insult on those of us who aren't playing ball. Dan Coats, hardly a bright light from the senate in his days there being a point man with the senators is also curious.
I think the President has single handedly made an appointment that was politically foolish, and is being done in a sloppy manner.
I lean strongest against the Miers nod for those reasons.
But with this news from over on National Review we find things curiouser and curiouser.
As upset as conservatives are with the nomination of Harriet Miers, it appears it was almost worse. According to this Novak column, Bush was leaning toward nominating Judge Consuelo "Connie" Callahan to replace Justice O'Connor.
President Bush had advised senators that his probable choice for the Supreme Court was federal Circuit Judge Consuelo Callahan of California. Bush touted Callahan's diversity as a Hispanic woman, but she is liberal enough to be recommended for the high court by Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer.
If Novak is right this lends some credance to my belief that the White house really is making a almost suicidal pick. The White House is spiking the ball which is why I called this last week the week our President jumped the shark.
and a Super Secret Secret Squirrel source on Powerline agrees with me.
All of this leads into what really bugs those of us who worked hard to keep this President in office: the nomination has the whiff of something with little thought put into it, and of a staff ill-prepared for what took place. In the end, Miers may be confirmed, but the cost - reinforcing the impression of a President and Administration politically weakened and inept - may be of far greater import to both the Republican and conservative movements.
This was a bad chess move, and Miers may be so conservative she makes Clarence Thomas look like Ruth Bader Ginsburg... but this was still a bad choice because it adds to the image of a White House circling the wagons, a White House distrustful of outsiders to the point of weakness. And -THIS- is what is so horrific about the Mier's nomination. Walking into a Midterm election with some one as bad as Liddy Dole working on the election... it puts the part one step weaker then the democrats.
This is why every other President has had a VP who can continue their legacy in the party, because the -PARTY- then has some one beyond the president to swear fealty to.
This is a failure of politics.. and possibly more.
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