Conservatives Divided on Miers - Is a 'Heart' Issue

While George Will says Harriet Miers is "The Wrong Pick" and Michelle Malkin is unimpressed with what she calls the "coffee-n-donut" traits of Miers that President Bush and her former Pastor called attention to, Ann Coulter doesn't think she's qualified.

WorldNetDaily reported that Harriett Miers has favored homosexual adoption, women in combat, and more non-conservative positions on the issues, but Clifford Kincaid of Accuracy in Media said some of their conclusions were inaccurate.

Leading Republican Senators are divided over Miers' nomination. Senator Trent Lott said:

"I don't just automatically salute or take a deep bow anytime a nominee is sent up. I have to find out who these people are, and right now, I'm not satisfied with what I know. I'm not comfortable with the nomination, so we'll just have to work through the process in due time...There are a lot more people – men, women and minorities – that are more qualified in my opinion by their experience than she is."

But Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced that he intends to vote for her:

"A lot of my fellow conservatives are concerned, but they don't know her as I do. She is going to basically do what the president thinks she should, and that is to be a strict constructionist."

Dr. James Dobson, Founder and Chairman of Focus on the Family has publicly voiced his support for the Miers' nomination on his radio show saying:

"I have talked at length to people who havve known her a long time, 25 years. I trust these people."

Gary Bauer, President of American Values, said he is unconvinced about Miers:

"As of today, not one friend, associate, co-woirker or White House official is able to produce one sentence she has written or spoken in criticism of Roe v.Wade. Her apparaent silence is troubling - at least to me."

While conservatives are highly 'engaged' on this appointment, some liberals are surprisingly content to watch and wait. Could it be because Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, was the one who suggested Miers for the appointment to President Bush?

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