Sorry Eric, I guess I just misunderstood the question. I suppose that you could ridicule the idea that she isn't qualified because she isn't from an Ivy-League school. Or that she is particularly qualified because she is a victim because she is a woman. That seems to be the limit to what the pundits are saying.
We know next to nothing about her, except that she quit her fundamentalist church and started a new one because it was getting too liberal. Being an Orthodox Christian, I find this to be a bit ironic (we tend to think of other churches, including the Roman Catholic, to be "new" and liberal and possibly blasphemous). I am more comfortable with the original intent, whether it be of the Founding Fathers, or with God. That being the case, will she try to bring some new meaning to the Constitution that isn't there? She did it with her church. Personally, I would hope that she takes her cue from Thomas and not from ANY of the others. And I still haven't answered your question!! PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dondero Rittberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Libertarian@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:13 PM Subject: [Libertarian] Re: How can we libts. capitalize on the current Cons fight over Miers? > Fine Steven, but that has little to do with what I'm talking about > in my post. > > Again, the question is how is it that we libertarians can inject > ourselves into this fight, and maybe get a little media attention > off of it to boot? > > > > > --- In Libertarian@yahoogroups.com, "steven linnabary" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eric Dondero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I luv this! Our Conservative Cousins are split right down the > middle over > > Harriet Miers. Most of the Establishment Conservatives, > particularly in the > > Senate are behind her, and the Grass Roots are fiercely opposing > her (along > > with Cons leaders like Ann Coulter, Brent Bozell, Buchanan, et.al.) > > > > > > This is hilarious. From a libertarian perspective we can just > sit back an > > laugh at our Conservative friends. We don't have a ball in this > court, at > > all. > > > > > > What do you all think? Is there any way at all that the > libertarian > > movement can capitalize on all this? > > > > > > I've seen almost zero libertarian participation in this fight. > Almost > > zero. I did see on CNN Orin Hatch making a comment something to > the effect > > that "even the libertarian Cato Institute has had some nice words > for > > Miers..." > > > > > > But besides that Nothing! > > > > > > There's got to be something we all can do to interject our > movement into > > this fight and get some media attention. Thoughts? > > > > > > > IMHO, it matters little if she is liberal or conservative. What > matters is > > that she have a firm grasp of the USConstitution. > > > > There are far too many intellectual lightweights on the current > court. > > Ginzberg (Clinton) and Souter (Bush) come to mind. Their thinking > is > > incredibly muddled. > > > > While I hated Reinquist (Nixon), at least he had a deep command of > the > > Constitution. I usually enjoyed reading his decisions, even > though I > > usually disagreed. My problem with his writing was that his > conservative > > prejudices showed to much, sometimes overwhelming his > Constitutional logic. > > Scalia (Reagan) is much the same, but with somewhat less > conservative > > prejudice tending to overshadow his thinking. > > > > O'Connor (Reagan) will not be missed. She was another intellectual > > lightweight. > > > > I will be overjoyed if Roberts or Miers is half as good as Thomas > (Bush). > > > > PEACE > > Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer > > Franklin County Libertarian Party > > (614) 891-8841 > > P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 > > > > "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent > revolution > > inevitable" John F. Kennedy > > > > > > > > > > > > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
