A Boston Tea Party …(Game On)

All real conservatives are rejoicing today. The Harriet Miers nomination is over. There should be no gloating but it is a time of excitement. Give the President credit for reading the writing on the wall and acting. He took the lesser of two evils and decided to take the hit now rather than face a larger degree of embarrassment when she went before the senate during hearings next month. He is taking a mulligan and we now begin the nomination process anew.

Make no mistake about it; there is a political hit for the mistake of this nomination. Only the President’s “yes” men would deny it. The short-term will have Democrats screaming the President has given in to the far right fringe. Had he nominated the type of candidate he was expected to nominate he would never have been in this situation. It is the President and his staff who screwed up not Harriet Miers. We are now back to where we should have been.

The debate or fight (call it what you want) for the direction of the country’s judicial philosophy is what us conservatives want. It is all about how one believes the constitution should be interpreted. It is this interpretation that will decide whether Roe v Wade is proper law. It is whether one believes the constitution is a strict document and not one that moves with the times. It is an interpretation that does not allow for judicial rulings of foreign countries to help decide law. Conservatives want this hearing, this nominee, this point in time to show the stark contrast between us and the left.

It is because of the seriousness of what is at stake that we demand the best candidate possible. Every Supreme Court ruling has ramifications throughout the land. We need experts who can write arguments that take the country back to where it was intended to be. The Presidents next nominee does not have to be a woman but rather the best strict constitutionalist available. If that candidate is Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown then so be it.

The conservative cause remained faithful to its beliefs throughout the Miers mistake. The conservative cause remained faithful to its beliefs regardless of who the President was. The conservative cause will show it fully supports this President when he leads in a manner he was elected to do as he has in the war with Iraq. The conservative cause will remain a powerful force in this country long after this President is gone.

Democrats are now going to realize how mainstream the conservative cause really is. Let’s get ready to rumble because it is “game on”. There is no better way to demonstrate how far to the left the likes of Kennedy and Shumer are than to bring a confident, strong and qualified nominee before them. The next candidate should not be a “stealth nominee”. We conservatives want this fight all out in the open for everyone to see. What better way to show your cause is just then to win in a public forum. After conservatives win this fight to rein in the judiciary I only hope we turn those same forces towards fiscal responsibility. I am getting ahead of myself, as Red Pollard said in the movie "Seabiscuit, “Brick by brick my citizens brick by brick.”