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Friday, October 14. 2005Santorum Now Has Reservations about MiersCNN's "Situation Room" just reported that Rick Santorum is expressing reservations about President Bush's Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers (video at bottom of post). When asked his opinion about federal Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Santorum said he had not yet made up his mind. "I don't know yet," Santorum said. "But I am concerned President Bush nominated someone who is a blank slate. I'm disappointed he wanted to nominate someone like that instead of someone with a record." Why would Rick express these reservations now, after keeping quiet on the Miers nomination for the last couple of weeks? The answer may lie in the following passage from a recent Newsweek piece by Howard Fineman: The Harriet Miers nomination was the final insult. Religious conservatives have an inferiority complex in the Republican Party. In an interesting way, it’s the same attitude that many African-Americans have had toward the Democratic Party over the years. They think that the Big Boys want their votes but not their presence or their full participation. And what really frosts the religious types is that Bush evidently feels that he can only satisfy them by stealth—by nominating someone with absolutely no paper trail. It’s an affront. Here's the CNN video: |
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Is Santorum the big target in 2006? Is anybody bigger next year?