Misunderstanding??? Aw, Come On Now...

Well, which is it? Does Harriet Miers support the "Griswold vs. Connecticut" decision upon which the "Roe vs. Wade" decision was founded, or, was she simply misunderstood by Senator Arlen Specter?

There was a story circulating late yesterday (Tuesday 10-18-05), which said, basically, it was all a big misunderstanding.

Senator Specter’s spokesperson is said to have written to the Press saying that Senator Specter THOUGHT Ms. Miers had agreed with "Griswold v. Connecticut" and there was a right to privacy in the Constitution. Then, the spokesperson wrote that after Senator Specter’s comments to the Press, he (the Senator) received a phone call from Ms. Miers, herself, to say that he (The Senator) had misunderstood her and that she had, in fact, taken no position on Griswold and the right to privacy issue. The Senator’s spokesperson now says the Senator accepts Ms. Miers statement that he had misunderstood what she said.

Ok, so what DID she say? What DID she mean?

This whole nomination fiasco is a mess! A total, irredeemable mess.

Conservatives are only digging in deeper. Especially when such mismanagement of the nominee is so obvious as the incident described above was/is.

So far, nothing Ms. Miers has said, or done, or the Whitehouse has said, or done, has caused Social Conservatives to move one whit towards offering their support for this nominee. Folks, It ain’t gonna happen!

We have a stalemate here. The White House will not back down and neither will we.

Again I say, the White House had better wake up. Republican elections are won, and lost, as a result of what the base of the Republican Party does. And Conservatives ARE the base of the Republican Party. (I know I began the sentence with an "article"...but, it's my blog, darnit!)

Our conservatism is based on principles and on core beliefs and we are not going to compromise.

If the White House comes to it’s senses and withdraws this nomination, we will be satisfied… for the moment. We want a KNOWN Conservative as the nominee and we WANT the fight, with the Democrats, which will ensue. How hard is that to understand?

Then.. we want the spending cut and more tax cuts. See, we’re not so hard to understand!

Having said all the above… we have warned the White House, and we have warned the Republican National Committee. We will cut off the money. We can do that… and we will. These are not idle threats. Conservatives are hopping mad.

Someone said recently, that we “conservatives are conservative by principle and Republican by practice. Practice will change faster than principle”. No truer words were spoken.

Again, I ask the President to withdraw the name of Ms. Miers as the nominee to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, I’m not holding my breath.

“Longstreet”