The American Spectator

p> MIERS TO THE COURT br> Re: Discussion at AmSpecBlog : /p> p>From what I’m gathering on the blog, no one is very happy over this latest Bush nomination. I’m beginning to think that she is a compromise candidate in exchange for Roberts’ confirmation. Bush seems to be happy keeping the status quo (5-4) on the bench but then again, maybe we’re in for a pleasant surprise. I say this from past experiences where we thought we had a good conservative nominee and ended up with a closet liberal. Maybe this time we have a born again conservative candidate who has seem the error of the liberal mindset and will help bring the bench back to what it was intended to be. Could it be George has blown it or is this one of the shrewdest political moves he has ever pulled? Whatever the case may be, it promises to be interesting. br> — Pete Chagnon /p>

President Bush had a chance to change history for the better. Instead, he chose a poorly qualified political pal who contributed to Al Gore’s 1988 campaign, spent money on Bentsen, and never served as a judge or legal scholar.

Bush’s presidential career will be summed up as: giving the store away in education to please Ten Kennedy, passing an ill-defined and unlimited-cost Medicare prescription benefit shoring up the sagging career of Senator Specter paving the path of Hurricane Katrina with gold — our gold, and wrecking the U.S. Supreme Court just as effectively as daddy Bush.

p>I trust we can elect a genuine conservative president in 2008, one who will undo the damage of the two Bush administrations. Conservative financial support for more Dukakis clones will be unlikely. br> — Gregory L. Jackson, Ph.D.