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To: MrLucky who wrote (9786)	1/25/2006 7:05:41 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

Some on the thread suggested, it was an ideology thing with the right, which drove their rebuttal of Meiers. Don't think so. The concern was her lack of qualifications for the job and therefore she would never pass muster in the hearings. The right wanted an Alito. The Dems might well have been happy with Meiers. If she flunked the hearings, it would have been the work of Republicans. Those screaming the loudest on the right were the Fundies intent on overturning Roe. Very quickly they woke up to the fact that, thank God, she was poorly qualified to boot. Ask yourself this: If Meiers had been strongly anti-abortion, but in other respects the same, what would have happened? You can bet that most of the right wing would have been perfectly happy with her, while the likes of Reid would have been hammering away at her shoddy legal career.