Fun Times at the Free Republic

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I have been having SO MUCH fun reading all of the posts at the free republic site: www.freerepublic.com.

Here is one fun thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500989/posts?q=1&&page=151

"But remember: Laura Bush is on record as a supporter - not just of abortion rights - but of the Roe v. Wade decision. Interviewed on the Today program in January 2001, Mrs. Bush was asked point blank about the case. Her answer: "No, I don't think it should be overturned." Is it credible that Mrs. Bush would be endorsing Harriet Miers if the first lady thought that Miers would really do what James Dobson thinks she'll do?

Good point inasmuch as Laura is also on record as knowing Miers' heart.

The worst of it is, Bush only considered women for the seat. By arbitrarily excluding all men from consideration he engaged in exactly the sort of indefensible, noisome sexism that Laura is now accusing good conservatives of engaging in.

For the record: I wouldn't care if all nine justices were women IF they were all strict constructionists of a similar intellectual or moral stature as Scalia and Thomas and they were the best picks going head to head against men nominees.

But Bush's crony Miers, I fear, comes up way short on all accounts.
166 posted on 10/12/2005 5:51:00 AM PDT by JCEccles"

Here's another:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1501089/posts

And this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1501105/posts

It seems the more intelligent ones among the freepers have figured out that Bush/Rove/Cheney have been gaming the social conservatives for the last 5 years, and when he had his big chance to put in a "strict constructionist," he punted. Laura, his daughters, his mother: are all Pro-Choice. I have always thought that he was too. I think this nomination, and Roberts also, was the best he could get away with - no record of being pro-life or pr-choice so the women in his family wouldn't throw him out of the house. Bush is PRO-CORPORATION, not pro-life. I stand by this.

Great fun seeing their gnashing their teeth and wailing over the failure of GWB to turn back the clock 100 years.