Newsview: Strategy on Miers Backfiring

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) -

The White House is trying to have it both ways in marketing Harriet Miers to disgruntled Republicans.

To conservatives, the president's aides talk up a 1989 document showing she held clear anti-abortion views. Then they pivot and tell everyone else those were just the personal views of a candidate for the Dallas City Council and not a sign of how she might vote on the Supreme Court.

Bush emphasized last week that "part of Harriet Miers' life is her religion." Almost immediately, White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained that too much was being made of her membership in an evangelical Christian church.

Bush said he knows her heart and that she won't change. Except she has. She was a Catholic when she was young. And she was a Democrat who turned Republican.

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[Straight Shooter]

1. That's weird. I somehow suspected she was a Catholic.

When I checked it out, I couldn't find any definitive tie to a particular church. Lo and behold, she's a lapsed Catholic. We have some serious ethical problems with the Church, then, especially considering her crush on a married man.

[kurth]

2. Worse, she and Hecht are evangelicals

Frolicking without either marriage or procreation for over THIRTY years.

[Straight Shooter]

5. A fun-loving fornicator on the Supreme Court?

Wait. Won't that make Scalia's wife jealous, or does she agree with Fat Tony's concept that orgies are a good thing?

I'm so confused :crazy:

[GetTheRightVote]

3. The whole thing of nominating her to the courts is weirdo,

why not nominate me then ?????

:kick:

[LittleClarkie]

4. Sorry, minimum qualification is adoration of the Dubya

could YOU stomach that?

Office Wives Incorporated. Adoring the Chimp so you don't have ta.