The American Spectator

/p> p> Fine article. Couldn’t have said it better myself. For the past day and a half I have listened as conservative commentator after commentator railed about Ms. Miers’s selection. Unqualified, they said. Not conservative enough, they said. Not a brilliant enough legal mind, they said. I heard one Fox conservative whining that she did not have an Ivy League pedigree. I think they teach a good brand of law at SMU. After deriding her as unsuitable for the bench they then admit they really don’t know much about her beliefs. They all sound like the left would sound. Knee-jerk conservatives, all of them. Keep it up, you’ll make yourselves just as valuable to public debate as the far, far left. br> — William R. Falzone br> Seminole, Florida /p> p> While I am generally disposed at present to take a wait-and-see attitude to Miers, I have my reservations given Bush’s waffling on some critical issues. The statement, though, of waiting to see if she measures up AFTER being confirmed is not an option we, as conservatives, have anymore. By then, it’s too late, the damage will have been done and we go down in flames once more. Yes, the right is in a bit of a frenzy because even though Bush has a “stellar” track record, he also has thrown a few clunkers at a critical time. We have waited too long for a chance to reclaim our freedoms and put an end to judicial activism to take anything lightly. Words are nice but actions are better. Miers does not have the actions to back up her words. THAT is the bottom line. br> — Pete Chagnon /p>

I’d like to thank Lisa Fabrizio for pointing out the sainted Ronald Reagan’s appointment of O’Connor and Kennedy.

What I hear right now about Bush is what we all heard during most of Mr. Reagan’s two terms, but many of us would apparently like to forget; a herd of chicken-little conservatives running around and squawking from one ‘betrayal’ of their sacred trust to another by inept Ronny. First it was the recession, then the tax cuts weren’t big enough, he wasn’t aggressive enough with the Russkies, he gave away the store at Reykjavik, his second tax cut was a sell out, spending, the deficits, blah, blah, blah, until they screamed like schoolgirls.

p>Now of course, most of these same fools wear “Put Ron on the rock” t-shirts and think he should be sanctified. It’s deja vu all over again with Bush. I’d hate to have these imbeciles in a foxhole with me. A couple of moves they didn’t agree with and I’d have a bayonet in my backside, but they’d be sure and speak highly of me twenty years later, when its safe and convenient and of no help. br> — Brian Bonneau