October 27th, 2005
For doing the right thing and withdrawing the Miers nomination.
Let this be a stern rebuke in the future to all those who insist that opposition is wrong because it has no chance of changing an outcome. Standing up for principle is always its own reward and besides which, one of the immutable laws of life is that Things Change.
Conservatives who opposed Miers–some at real personal and professional cost to themselves–have kept an unqualified person off the Supreme Court, defended the intellectual honesty of conservatism from rank partisan politics, and, ironically enough, protected President Bush from a mistake of his own making. If the president defers to quality for his next nomination, then memory of Miers will fade quickly and the president and his party will find themselves in much better political fortunes, to boot.
Bonus speculation: Does this suggest that Rove isn’t going to be indicted?
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