It's one thing if the liberals hate you.
It's something else if the conservatives hate you too!
MEIERS HAD NO SUPPORT... No "Base" to work from...other than the support of Dubya.
So this thing was likely doomed from the start; and finished as soon as conservative columnists starting trashing Meiers mercilessly.
The amazing thing was that the Meiers nomination SHOWED THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT that the Bush Family DOESN'T REALLY WANT TO OVERTURN ROEvWADE OR SUPPORT THEIR RADICAL "SOCIAL AGENDA!"
Because most of the so-called religious right agenda is way, way out of the mainstream...
The truth is that it was put up or shut up time for the Republicans...and they choose not to put up the kind of people that the radical right wants on the court...
Very likely Bush will go with a "more qualified" candidate next time... Perhaps the time is ripe for Gonzales...and the "first Hispanic" on the court?
But I seriously doubt that Dubya will go with a Bible Belt religious conservative... He just can't afford to have that fight before the 2006 elections... Republicans will loose the Suburban and Exurban voters in droves!
Especially with the wheels coming off the economy... And foreigners deserting the bond market in anticipaton of the coming Bernanke Era at the Fed...
Meiers was the wrong person for the job...who knows maybe she even "recommended herself." But this isn't the first time Dubya & Co have show a political tin ear...
The mistakes and screwups are coming hard and fast now...and we still have three more years of Bush in the White House get through... What next?
