[lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over Miers too

[Steven L. Robinson]

But this leaves unanswered the question of WHY. Miers may not be qualified to sit on the SC, but from all appearances she can be counted on to vote with 'Scalia and Thomas.on all the important issues.  So why would folks like Coulter care?  (Coulter's reasoning  that the SC is where you put ivy league conservative lawyers is really strained). The fact that she was once a Democrat is also irrelevant as almost everyone 60 or older  in the South and Texas used to be a Democrat. The only sensible  explanation - largely speculative at this point- might be something larger than the Miers nomination itself - an attempt by some on the ideological right to take their distance of Bush (surely that is what Coulter and others, such as George Will, seem to be doing),  but why? Are they trying to avoid being burned by an iminent scandal brewing in the White House or, more likely, are they sensing upcoming policy shifts in the Administration not YET patently visible to the rest of us? Don't be optimistic as a "Grand coalition" of the GOP and Dem leadership probably will not be anything to cheer about.  SR

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>  If Ann Coulter is writing stuff like this rant and this mirrors a 
> conservative movement that is fracturing, then perhaps now would be a 
> good time for the American left to put the Bush-bashing on hold and 
> instead be more vocal about things WE want. ... 
> 
> Chuck 
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