The Miers Debate: Winners and Losers

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WINNER: George Will for his solid hard-hitting commentary:
"Under the rubric of 'diversity'' -- nowadays, the first refuge of intellectually disreputable impulses -- the president announced, surely without fathoming the implications, his belief in identity politics and its tawdry corollary" - Will 10/4/05

LOSER: George Will for some of his outrageous hard hitting commentary:
"He has neither the inclination nor the ability to make sophisticated judgments about competing approaches to construing the Constitution" - Will 10/4/05
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WINNER: Hugh Hewitt for his staunch and rigorous defense of Miers.
"The conservative opposition to Miers is rooted in the conceit among some Beltway operators --echoed by some conservative pundits-- that some conservatives know how to discern a nominee's philosophy and future trajectory, and are better positioned than the president, the vice president, senior aides, former White House Counsel lawyers, law professors Gralia and Starr, Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, James Dobson, Jay Sekulow, Chuck Colson etc. " - Hewitt 10/12/05

LOSER: Hugh Hewitt for his staunch and rigorous defense of Miers.
"The nomination of Miers is one of three things: a brilliant move by the president; a blunder like Reagan's nominations of Justice O'Connor and Kennedy or the first Bush's of Souter; or a betrayal of the sort that occasions taking leave of the whole project." - Hewitt 10/10/05
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WINNER: David Frum for moving his little known blog on NRO into anti-Miers central.
"George W. Bush conversely is very decisive. The trouble is he often decides too quickly and therefore without sufficient information. A loyal staffer would serve him by setting up formal systems to ensure that information finds its way to the president and that alternative points of view are articulated and heard." 10/21/05

LOSER: David Frum for raising questions from anonymous sources, money from anonymous donors and generally debasing his former boss.
"And she will remain not good enough even if she votes the right way on the court, or anyway starts out voting the right way. A Supreme Court justice is more than just a vote. A justice is also a voice." - Frum 10/6/05
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