Harriet Miers Watch: What Advantage for the RIGHT? II
Hugh Hewitt in World Magazine has Civility now.
With their actions regarding Harriet Miers, it will be difficult for conservatives to object to the way nominees they favor in the future are treated
Now, though, many so-called conservatives have eagerly embraced the weapons of borking, originally forged on anvils of the left, for use in their crusade against Harriet Miers, even though she is pro-life, pro-gun, and loyal to the president. Those tactics? Anonymous allegations of intellectual deficiency, rumors of scandals as yet unrevealed, hints of jurisprudential unreliability, and—of course—relentless personal attacks.
Remember Ronald Reagan’s invocation of the Republican 11th Commandment?
“Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”
Flap recommends that the RIGHT heeds the advice.
It will be difficult for conservatives to object in the future to the employ of such tactics against nominees they favor. Similarly, the demand laid down by some on the right for a “paper trail” and certainty on judicial philosophy will morph into a demand by Senate Democrats for the same, and the objections mounted in the past to various lines of questioning will certainly sound hollow coming from any pundit denouncing Ms. Miers now for her purported lack of an “overarching” judicial philosophy.
A paper trail that can be BORKED and NIT-PICKED to death by publicity seeking and television-vain Senators. Is that what the RIGHT wants?
Opponents of the Miers nomination from the right have every right to express their belief that nominee A or nominee B would have been a stronger nominee in their view. They do not know whether the Senate could have broken a filibuster, and they have not seen, of course, background files on their preferred candidate. But they can still assert their preference in terms that do not damage the long-term case for a return to civility and propriety in the nomination process.
My RIGHT brothers and sisters need to give it a rest.
Harriet Miers will have her days at the confirmation hearings. She will either be confirmed or rejected.
“What is the advantage of carrying on the attack of Miers from the RIGHT?â€
Answer: None.
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