Miers: A Stealth Candidate

A stealth nominee

Over the years I’ve become just paranoid enough to look behind every single government pronouncement. The president’s current nominee for the SCOTUS bench, Harriet Miers is both more and less than he would have us believe.

Ms Miers has taken a previous stand against Roe v. Wade. She’s against it. She is active in her church—which believes in the “inerrancy” of the Bible (7 days for Creation, etc.), she is “absolutely devoted” to the president, and has a smile that reminds me of a hyper-vigilant moray eel.

The president announced she is “a strict constructionist,” which is, anymore, code for someone out to shrink the government and return to the old discredited idea of States Rights, ever popular with the anti-civil rights people in the southern states. So, she’s more than this oddly-smiling grandmother-type. The president told us she will have the same philosophy she has now twenty years down the road. That’s an indication of a rigid petrified mind, as far as I know.

Pat Buchanan and other far right-ists claim she’s too untried, too inexperienced, too unknown. Trent Lott claims to have doubts. Seems Rovian to me. I think they’re full of malarky. I think they’re running a play to relax the Democrats and have them believe Ms Miers is a reasonable centrist. She’s not: she’s a conservative from the get-go. She’s about as close to an old-time Dixiecrat as anyone out there. The question is, will the democrats roll over on their backs and play dead again?

I think they will.