Pandering the Base

I have to admit I was caught a little off guard with the right wing, neocon reaction to Harriet Miers. This has really exploded, or imploded. Check out redstate.org just for a glimpse of their reaction.

Personally, and these are my opinions here...CLICK CONTINUE READING!...I would like to see someone with a little more experience. Miers has never been a judge before. Sure she’s an attorney, which means she goes where the money is, and sure she’s argued liberal issues and conservative issues before a judge; but she is not a judge. I don’t know the history on this, but how many non-judges have been placed on the Supreme Court?

Dems are quick to point out that Miers used to be a Democrat and she still has that independent thinking ability that Democrats love to think they have a monopoly on, but Miers giving money to Clinton and Gore mean nothing. If I’m not mistaken, she gave them money during a primary, which sometimes Republicans give money to the person they want to come out of the primary for benefit of their chances in the General Election. Democrats do it too, so I shouldn’t be so labeling on that matter. Donating money for primary purposes is not the telltale sign that it appears to be. I'll get back to my opinion analysis a little later, because I want to get onto my point of writing this post.

Something that is very telltale is Cheney’s appearance on Rush Limbaugh’s show this morning. Because of the backlash the Bush administration has been receiving from its base, the neocons thought it necessary to turn on their machine, and Cheney went to work.

This from Limbaugh, credit to Media Matters:

LIMBAUGH: Let me jump right in on the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. Mr. Vice President, there's a lot of concern out there among the president's supporters that her judicial philosophy is unknown. Because, obviously, she's not been a judge. Do you know what her judicial philosophy is? And how can the public be convinced -- the president's supporters be convinced -- that it parallels the philosophy of [justices] Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, as the president had said, during campaigns, was his objective?

CHENEY: Right, well I'm confidant that she has a conservative judicial philosophy that you would be comfortable with, Rush.

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Now wait just one minute Mr. Vice President. What in the hell does that mean? These quotes from Limbaugh’s morning show deserve answers. If the VP of the United States can go on a talk show and relate the president’s agenda to the conservative judicial philosophy of Rush Limbaugh then it all should end right there. Why should the Vice President have to reassure some drug-addicted wacko that the new nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States shares the same philosophy?

Is this the judicial philosophy of Miers:

• Defying Bush's call to "tone down the heated rhetoric," Limbaugh referred to Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer as "socialist wackos."


• Limbaugh on abortion rights activists: the "original feminazis" who believe every abortion that doesn't happen "is a setback for the cause."


• Limbaugh on abuse of Iraqi prisoners: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow[ing] some steam off."


• Limbaugh: prisoner abuse possibly a "brilliant maneuver"; "reaction" to it "is an example of the feminization of this country."


• Limbaugh on conditions for detainees at Guantánamo Bay: "It's a tropical paradise down there where Muslim extremists and terrorist wannabes can get together for rest and relaxation."

If so, then the vice president or the president should hold a press conference and announce it to the nation. Don’t circumvent the press by going to your fake journalists while flipping the rest of us the bird. This backdoor George Bush leadership is old. The public should know the judicial philosophy of Miers. Is Cheney willing to now go on liberal and independent talk shows and say exactly what he said to fat ass? This is our country people. Let’s have some ownership. Demand better.

This is serious stuff and Cheney should be made to answer to the public and not just pander the base. Enough is enough.