Harriet Miers Watch: Conservatives NOT Happy over Miers’ Nomination

White House Counsel Harriet Miers (C), U.S. President George W. Bush’s nominee to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court, meets with U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (R), on Capitol Hill October 5, 2005.

The Washington Post has Conservatives Confront Bush Aides, Anger Over Nomination of Miers Boils Over During Private Meetings.

The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president’s envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings.

A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course of several hours of sometimes testy exchanges, the dissenters complained that Miers was an unknown quantity with a thin résumé and that her selection — Bush called her “the best person I could find” — was a betrayal of years of struggle to move the court to the right.

Conservatives have the RIGHT to be Angry and FEEL Betrayed.

Harriet Miers is NOT the best candidate.

As the nominee continued to work the halls of the Senate, the White House took comfort from the more measured response of the Senate Republican caucus and remained confident that most if not all of its members ultimately will support her. Yet even some GOP senators continued to voice skepticism of Miers, including Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who pronounced himself “not comfortable.”

“Is she the most qualified person? Clearly, the answer to that is ‘no,’ ” Lott said on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” contradicting Bush’s assertion. “There are a lot more people — men, women and minorities — that are more qualified, in my opinion, by their experience than she is. Now, that doesn’t mean she’s not qualified, but you have to weigh that. And then you have to also look at what has been her level of decisiveness and competence, and I don’t have enough information on that yet.”

Harriet Miers will be confirmed but she is NOT the best candidate and the RIGHT is justified in its disappointment.

The Bush Presidency is over…… but Flap said that before didn’t he?

Read what Geroge Will and Pat Buchanan say about the Miers’ nomination.