In this photo provided by the State Bar of Texas, then State Bar of Texas President Harriet Miers sits for a television interview in 1992.

She is a Texas woman isn’t she?

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?”

Answer: None.

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This photo taken Jan. 22, 2001, provided by the White House shows President Bush signing personnel forms with then-staff secretary Harriet Miers in the Oval Office of the White House.

Hugh Hewitt is keeping score.

I am sure there are some poorly written paragraphs in Harriet Miers’ TBA columns, just as there are poorly written paragraphs in all of my books and columns. Cutting and pasting and showing these on cable television is not an argument, it is in fact part and parcel of “borking,” which includes as a tactic the selective display and exaggeration of a nominee’s quotes for the purpose of producing a negative reaction against him or her, not based in their qualification to serve on SCOTUS.

Again, RIGHT FOLKS, Harriet Miers will NOT withdraw and the President will NOT pull the nomination.

STOP IT!

But……. for those keeping score…..

On Miers’ side to date: Ken Starr, Lino Gralia, Thomas Sowell, James Dobson, Jay Sekulow, Marvin Olasky, Chuck Colson, Michael Medved, William Rusher, R. Emmett Tyrrell and Fred Barnes.

Against her: The Corner, Tucker Carlson, Bill Kristol, Mark Levin, George Will, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and Charles Krauthhammer. I like those odds.

Oh, yes. President Bush thinks she’ll make a fine Associate Justice. A strong case allows the weak case as much time as it wants. A weak case shouts down its opposite, and refuses to engage.

Miers is headed for SCOTUS, guaranteeing decades of anguished posts by members of the Bos-Wash Axis of Elitism on why her votes don’t count as much as their long ago criticisms.

Hugh has it RIGHT!

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Hugh Hewitt has Rove on the Record.

I spoke to Karl Rove an hour ago. His support for the Miers nomination is not merely enthusiastic, but adamant and even vehement.

Read it all here.

Flap repeats “What advantage is there for the RIGHT” to continue bashing the President, the First Lady and Harriet Miers?

And the White House weighs in with WHouse dismisses critics wanting Miers to withdraw.

The White House on Thursday dismissed critics of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers who want her to withdraw from consideration amid new questions about her conservative credentials.

Spokesman Scott McClellan signaled full steam ahead with the Miers nomination, saying the White House lawyer had begun filling out a questionnaire required by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider her nomination, and hoped to turn it in early next week.

Harriet Miers will NOT withdraw her name (nor should she) and the President will not pull the plug on her nomination……. so………

Our friends on the RIGHT really need to BACK OFF!

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The Smoking Gun has The Harriet And George Letters

Bush-Miers Texas correspondence reveals mutual admiration society

Sure, nobody seems to know anything about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s judicial philosophy, abortion position, or conservative bona fides. But here’s something not open for debate: the old gal loves exclamation points and seemed to enjoy writing gushy notes to then-Governor George W. Bush. Below you’ll find copies of personal correspondence exchanged between Bush and Miers from 1995-2000 (before migrating to Washington, Miers headed the Texas State Lottery Commission, a post to which Bush appointed her). The Bush-Miers letters were among more than 2000 pages of documents released this week by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. In a 1997 Hallmark greeting card (adorned with a photo of a dog), Miers sent along belated birthday wishes and noted that “You are the best governor ever–deserving of great respect!” In another note (penned on an American Greetings card), Miers wrote that she hoped Bush’s daughters realized that their parents were “cool.” A 1995 Miers note thanked Bush for a visit, adding that an airplane ride with the governor was “Cool!” Sadly, the document dump did not include Miers’s e-mail or IM messages, which are surely filled with loads of sappy emoticons. (18 pages)

First, it was the press searching through Robert Bork’s trash cans and researching his video rental records.

Now, it is Harriet Miers’ birthday cards.

And folks wonder why some candidates like Flap’s fav, federal appeals court judge Priscilla Owen, may not have wanted the job?

The price of a free press.

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Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers waits for Senator Charles Grassley before their meeting at the Hart Senate office building on Capitol Hill in Washington October 4, 2005.

Reuters has Bush defends Miers nomination, noting her religion.

President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that religion is part of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ life as he tried to counter complaints that she may not be conservative enough and the White House acknowledged two other potential candidates had withdrawn.

After disclosure that several staff lawyers for Republican senators had questioned Miers’ credentials, Bush again expressed confidence that she would win Senate confirmation.

“She’s going to make a great Supreme Court judge,” Bush said of Miers, now the White House counsel and Bush’s former personal lawyer.

“People are interested to know why I picked Harriet Miers,” Bush said. “They want to know Harriet Miers’ background, they want to know as much as they possibly can before they form opinions. And part of Harriet Miers’ life is her religion.”

The White House is scrambling to bolster support for Miers amid calls from some conservatives that he withdraw her nomination. Officials have noted that Miers is a conservative Christian whose church opposes abortion to try and quiet her critics.

For Flap’s friends on the RIGHT who do not support Harriet Miers’ nomination to SCOTUS, remember it is the President’s CALL.

The United States Senate has NO reason not to confirm her.

Hugh Hewitt asks the question as does Flap previously “What is the advantage of carrying on the attack from the right?” Answer: None.

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Vs.

Michelle Malkin has this tongue in cheek comparison, LAURA INGRAHAM ON MIERS.

Laura was on Hannity & Colmes tonight making some of the most cogent, non-sexist, and non-elitist arguments against Harriet Miers I’ve seen and heard over the last excruciating week. Watch the whole thing at The Political Teen (thanks, Ian).

I’m with Miniter: Laura Ingraham for SCOTUS!

😉

Michelle, we all know that Laura is OVER-qualified.

:oD~~~~~~~~

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Reuters has Miers supporter says White House made no promises.

A prominent conservative supporter of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers said on Tuesday White House advisor Karl Rove did not give him assurances on how Miers would vote on Roe v. Wade or any other social issues.

“Karl Rove didn’t tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court,” said James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, a conservative group.

“We did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the Court.”

In a transcript of a his radio show airing on Wednesday, Dobson said he was now free to speak about a talk he had with Rove before the nomination because Rove had given him permission “to go public.”

The Transcript of Dr. Dobson’s radio show is here.

Flap believes Dr. Dobson.

The Senate Judiciary Committee should call him to testify to clear the air if they wish.

He will testify very willingly.

Harriet Miers will be confirmed in any case.

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Michelle Malkin has MIERS: BEWARE.

Flap compares this to eating your YOUNG.

Read what HH has to say.

If those disappointed by the Miers nomination want to assure that a Michael Luttig or a Michael McConnell never get nominated much less through the Senate, they will pursue tactics that will diminish the Senate majority so that the constitutional option is off the table.

Flap has Harriet Miers Watch: Conservatives Vs. Conservatives

Some of the Washington pundits (albiet elitist or not) should CHILL.

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Matt Drudge is reporting on his radio program that Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family may be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Harriet Miers’ confirmation hearings.

And this is confirmed by the Associated Press here.

On Wednesday Dr. Dobson:

“This is a good woman who will do the right thing,” Dobson told his radio audience Wednesday, telling them that “the blood of those babies who will die will be on my hands” if he is wrong.

Click here to listen to Dr. James Dobson’s radio program in which he discusses Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court.

The Rev. Ted Haggard, a Colorado Springs pastor whose growing national prominence has earned him a place on the White House phone tree, was not concerned about the early divisions among social conservatives over the nomination.

“Everybody’s fine,” said Haggard, pastor of New Life Church and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group of churches and denominations representing more than 30 million people. “This is just part of the process. It’s actually good positioning because it confuses the liberals.”

Haggard said he, like Dobson, received a phone call from the White House before Miers’ nomination. Like Dobson, Haggard isn’t talking about the conversation.

While Haggard said he would not pass judgment on Miers until after the nomination hearings, he gave a strong indication of his thinking: “If the president and Dr. Dobson say she’s a good woman for the position,” Haggard said, “odds are she is.”

Senators purportedly want to learn what was said to Dobson regarding the Pro-Life and abortion views of Harriet Miers by White House operatives.

Stay tuned…..

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