DEMS: Frame the miers withdrawal this way!

[slor]

"Another example of how this president will bend to the wishes of the small cabal of right-wingers in the country. That he would go against his own wishes to appease them". What do you think folks?

[monarch]

1. Excellent! n/t

[MrTriumph]

7. Bush betrays his funamentalist base again

x

[annabanana]

2. Bush in the pocket of radical right!!

Miers not CRAZY enough for them!!

I like it

[Tesla]

3. They want you to have babies.....

even if it KILLS YA!!!

[Mike03]

4. Bingo!

A failure of personal conviction.

[PDittie]

5. Wash, rinse, repeat

Excellent frame.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Yeah! They say 'Jump' and he asks 'how high'?

And whatever happened to 'we must repect the choice of the pResident because we elected him'????

What about 'Every candidate deserves an upperdown vote'???

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Yeah!

Why aren't they screaming about the up and down vote? :eyes:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Yes, yes, yes!

This morning, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) spoke out about the undue influence of the religious right on the GOP-from what KSMU said, I took it that Danforth (himself a minister)has decided that extremists have taken over his party.

[Mutley]

9. An excellent argument but...

I think we have to see who the next nominee will be first. Judging by *'s character, I'm willing to bet he'll nominate a moderate just to stick it to the right, in which case your argument will be invalid.

But if he nominates a wingnut, I'm all for it.

[slor]

17. We cannot base our frames on...

what they do, we must learn to frame with only one thing in mind, undermining their position. I have no doubt, that she would have worked to end pro-choice, if for no other reason than to appease the chimp's base, such was her perverse loyalty. He will of course nominate someone that appears more hardline than her, but make no mistakes, she would have been just as much a threat to our country as whomever he brings up next. At this point, the chimp now looks weaker than he did before, as he looks indecisive, and like a puppet, so this frame works well, and it is supported by the apparent facts, so even better. She did not "withdraw" due to actions by Dems, this was a move to appease the right-wingers that were all over her. And as a bonus, we get to speculate about the "whys" of her withdrawal. One that immediately comes to mind is that people were getting to close to NG/Vietnam avoidance story. I do hate to see what comes next, but I am elated at the chance to attack bush on this, should the Dems choose to use this tactic.

[shadowknows69]

10. What happened to ?

"the president should have the nominee he wants"

[Spazito]

11. You are absolutely right on! Schumer is on CNN now saying

exactly that! He is saying the Pres is listening to his extreme right wing. No republican Senator asked for her withdrawal, only bush's extreme right wing of the party. Excellent!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Right. Beholden to Crony Robber Baron Extremists.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. He can't lead is my way

He can't lead. He just watches the polls. And here they said he doesn't need to and he's a leader. :eyes:

[tk2kewl]

15. reid said pretty much the same thing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2185039

[BeFree]

16. Why did they kill Ms. Miers nomination?

It was a political homicide, the lady was never given a fair chance.

Ms. Miers was acceptable to the minority Dem's, is that why her nomination was killed? Because she appealed to most of America? And the radical-right couldn't accept a moderate?

[Festivito]

20. Lots of reasons. My favorite.

She was involved with hiding W's Vietnam era guard records. She MAY have overseen the payoff to the guy who hid the papers. It could have come out under questioning.

It had to die. They'd love to have done it while indictments were in full coverage. Tee-hee-hee, it did not work out well for them.

[progressivejazz]

18. I love it. (n/t)

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[Stinky The Clown]

19. That's pretty much what Reid and the DNC have been saying