Talk:Harriet E. Miers

On Harriet E. Miers: [Guess I'm not the ONLY conspiracy theorist :-) ]

And because Miers is an Uber-Loyalist, she'd do this for W:

"I SWEAR I HEARD IT. I was just talking to a conservative acquaintance who gave me the latest thinking in conservative circles: that Harriet Miers is a fake nominee. The backstory (can a theory have a backstory?) is essentially that Miers is the easy outside curveball before the fastball that comes in zipping in on the knuckles. That is, she gets sent up, everyone sees how unqualified she is, the hearings go badly, she gets withdrawn, they’re popping the champagne in the Democratic cloakroom -- and then, boom, Janice Rogers Brown! And the Democrats, having used up one more round of SCOTUS ammo, are caught flatfooted.

"It’s a little implausible, of course, because it’s the Democrats who like Miers, so they won’t be using up any ammo on her. But it’s interesting, because it sounds like the kind of paranoid thing that we would make up about them, ascribing to them more strategic deviousness than they’re actually capable of. Post-Miers, they’re making it up about themselves. --Michael Tomasky" TAPPED, October 4, 2005.