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Got my tinfoil hat on nice and snug. I am totally weirded out by the wingnut reaction to this nomination. Keep feeling like it's some kind of elaborate Rovian head fake...

My other theory is that he's scared of an indictment, and what better remedy for that than having your personal lawyer sitting on the Supreme Court...I know, I know, go take your valium like a good little girl...
 

Its a strange reaction from the right. Clearly Rove did a good job with Dobson though. I am 100% sure that Miers is everything that any good wing nut would want. I suspect that they don't like the fact that she doesn't have the paper trail. IDIOTS! That is the whole point. What they really would like to see is someone as vocal as Pat Robertson getting in there. They wan't lectures from the supremes telling us how we need to fear God (the right one).

Sigh. Nothing with ever be enough for these folks.
 

Here's the GOP leadership's dirty little secret - it doesn't want Roe overturned. A slim majority of Americans want abortion to be safe and legal, and losing that right would turn moderates and indendents against the Republicans. Besides, the Christian right's outrage over legalized abortion keeps millions of wingnuts advocating for the Republican party. Bush is a Republican corporatist who learned 20 years ago how to walk and talk like a fundamentalist Christian.
 

I think it's more than a slim majority that wants to preserve a woman's rght to choose. All depends on how the question is phrased.
 

True.

From an Aug. 2005 Gallup poll:
"With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?"

Pro-choice 54 Pro-life 38

A July 7-10 Gallup poll showed 68 percent do not want Roe overturned.

So why would the GOP want to be indentified as the party that finally overturned Roe? Republicans feed on moral outrage. Roe is their main course.