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October 26, 2005

She's not goosestepping to their beat

Does it bug anyone else that the real reason so many conservatives want Harriet Miers to withdraw is because they don't know for sure that she'll be a hardcore, Scalia-style vote?

Their excuses that somehow she doesn't have the intellectual acumen or the breadth of experience to do the job is meaningless. If Miers were a proven rightwing ideologue with a track record of relentless social conservativism, she'd be a shoe-in with the GOP. They wouldn't care if her law degree was written by Crayola.

It's unlikely Bush could name anyone to the court that I'd be comfortable with. I find conservatism in general to be an onerous ideology which often plays to the most base human instincts. But I'm not in the business of selling people short by attempting deceit to soft pedal the real reasons I dislike conservatism.

Why do the Phyllis Schlafly's of the world pretend that anyone with two brain cells to rub together, can't see through their quite obviously transparent move to dump a person who might not goosestep to their beat?

Posted by Carla at October 26, 2005 09:40 AM