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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9840)	1/26/2006 10:58:33 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541637

What that episode showed is that conservatives all plainly know that Bush Jr. is not their leader, he is just a frontman with a good haircut. In the Meiers case he actually tried to push his idea (limited as it was) and that was what the conservatives rebelled against. Once Cheney and Rove shook some sense back into him he let them choose. I think Bush was actually trying to deliver on Meiers via a stealth candidate approach. He knows her well, but nobody else did. Remember his trust me approach to conservatives with her? Dobson, or one of those characters, backed Bush on this. Meiers had such a paltry legal record, that Dems could only really object on competency grounds. For the Reps, there was also no record to go on, just trust Bush. I'm quite certain that if Reps had definitive proof of her leanings, they would have been OK with her. But it was too risky, and her leanings did not look strong enough in the right directions. Too bad we can't run tests of all the combinations. It would be amusing. The Dems are just as bad as the Reps in making excuses to hide political motivation for actions.