Shanktified!

“At least nine of the last twelve Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been pro- abortion. Five of the seven Justices who voted for Roe v. Wade were Republican appointees. Based on that track record, it is insulting, and frankly, irrational for President Bush to ask the pro-life community to simply trust him that Miers will be the kind of judge that will help end the national disgrace of abortion on demand,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “There is too much at stake. We will not gamble the lives of innocent children on a ‘hope so’ nominee.”

Once again, Ann Coulter is on the money.

I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush’s real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.

Unfortunately for Bush, he could nominate his Scottish terrier Barney, and some conservatives would rush to defend him, claiming to be in possession of secret information convincing them that the pooch is a true conservative and listing Barney’s many virtues — loyalty, courage, never jumps on the furniture …

Read the rest at WND.com

Let’s not make the same mistake Christians made with Jimmy Carter. He was a born again Christian - so he’ll be good for America.

Bloomberg.com: U.S.
White House Counsel Harriet Miers’s backers are stressing her evangelical Christian faith in urging skeptical conservatives to support her U.S. Supreme Court nomination.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Miers’ Qualifications Are ‘Non-Existent’ by Patrick J. Buchanan
This is not to disparage Harriet Miers. From all accounts, she is a gracious lady who has spent decades in the law and served ably as Bush’s lawyer in Texas and, for a year, as White House counsel.

But her qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

What commended her to the White House, in the phrase of the hour, is that she “has no paper trail.” So far as one can see, this is Harriet Miers’ principal qualification for the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Bush capitulated to the diversity-mongers, used a critical Supreme Court seat to reward a crony and revealed that he lacks the desire to engage the Senate in fierce combat to carry out his now-suspect commitment to remake the court in the image of Scalia and Thomas,”
~ Pat Buchanan (reaction to the Harriet Miers nomination)

Miers’ record begins to fill in
Bush pick supported International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, women in combat, tax hike…
More at WorldNetDaily

Miers appears to support “gay rights,” according to a new article on a homosexual website in Texas. According to the story, Miers:

1.) Met with “gay rights group,” appointed a homosexual

Miers “met with members of a gay rights group during her successful campaign for a seat on the Dallas City Council in 1989 and later appointed a prominent gay attorney to a city board that oversees federal grants.”

2.) Seemed to avoid sodomy question

“Miers stated in the questionnaire that she would not support a bill to repeal the Texas sodomy law, saying the matter would not come before the Dallas City Council.” (Sounds like she was just trying to dodge the issue.)

3.) Supported equal rights for gays, opposed discrimination based on s.o.

Former Dallas, TX Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition member Marc Lerro said, “he endorsed Miers for the [Dallas City] Council post, saying he recalls that she expressed general support for equal rights for gays and indicated she opposed discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

4.) Appointed a well-known homosexual to CDBG board

“Miers later appointed Dallas gay attorney Don McCleary to Dallas’ Community Development Block Grant Board, which helped the city decide how to spend federal housing and urban development funds. Under Dallas’ city manager form of government, members of the Council have authority to make city appointments.” Lerro said “On a personal level, she was very open to having gay people serve on boards and commissions.” Miers used the homosexual’s endorsement publicly. According to Lerro, “Miers ‘welcomed’ his endorsement in the 1989 Council race and added his name to one of her campaign brochures.”

Read the full report on the pro-homosexual Houston Voice website:
http://www.houstonvoice.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2742

Related links:

National Review’s David Frum: “No reason at all to believe either that she is a legal conservative…”
http://frum.nationalreview.com/

Public Advocate opposes Miers’ nomination:
http://www.earnedmedia.org/paus1003.htm

CWA expresses ‘guarded optimism’ on Miers:
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=9081&department=MEDIA&categoryid=misc