No Joy in "The Base" After Miers Withdrawal

There has been increasing noise from the Barabas wing of the Republican Party in the wake of Miers withdrawal falsely claiming that her nomination was opposed by a majority of conservatives. The only measure we have for the veracity of such statements are polls which show that Miers retained positive support for her nomination among Republicans. The Rasmussen Report released on October 21 continued to show support for Miers among the GOP :

Forty-eight percent (48%) of Republicans say the President's nominee should be confirmed. That's down from 54% a week ago. Twenty percent (20%) of the GOP faithful oppose the nomination, up from 17% a week ago. Republicans supported the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts by a 64% to 11% margin.

From CNN/USAToday/Gallup:

Initial Reaction to Miers' Withdrawal

	Pleased	Disappointed
TOTAL SAMPLE	42%	35%
Conservatives	34	44
Moderates	45	33
Liberals	55	25
Independents	39	33
Republicans	31	53
Democrats	55	25

A comparison of past nominations shows Miers as more qualificatied, as viewed by the general public, than Clarence Thomas, to whom her nomination was frequently compared:

Source: The Wall Street Journal, for larger, less fuzzy image click here.

At Mike's America, the sample of readers polled showed over 70% supporting Miers nomination, and that number would be closer to 90% if tie dyed hippie freak tree worshipping neo-socialist moonbats had been excluded.

However you look at it, the claim that "the base" was nearly unanimous in opposing Miers is demonstrably FALSE!

The Barabas wing of the GOP was headquartered at sites like Confirm Them.com, which continues to include Mike's America on their blogroll, sandwiched in between the other hotbeds of Barbabism: Michelle Malkin directly above and National Review immediately below. Perhaps it's just another example of conservative support for affirmative action and diversity, I'm not sure.

Here's one of the rare comments at National Review Online that expresses my current thinking in a different way:

Instead of Democrat corks popping today, we have Corner corks popping. I hear them from here. Of course, your corks have been close to popping for some weeks now, and some explosion of some sort was bound to occur.
I'm dismayed: in the course of this victory, you've raised an unseemly noise among conservatives, and now you're patting yourselves on the back, and Bush on the head, and letting him--and all us ignoramuses who support him--know that everything will be okay. Because you're happy, I guess.

A most unseemly business. Not just a kerfuffle. Ugly and unnecessary. But I can't just be glad it's over. Sorry it ever happened. With friends like the Corner, who needs to be President?

Now--onward and upward: find the right ideologue, then dare to cry "Foul!" when some Democrat demands litmus tests.

Validating Democrat ideological litmus tests by imposing one of our own.. Just another reason to thank Barabas conservatives for undermining the leadership and effectiveness of President Bush and advancement of the conservative agenda.

It's clear that our Barabas conservative friends were itching for a fight. And when President Bush didn't give them the nominee to fight FOR, they decided to fight the President instead of our political opponents.

Thanks again, Barabas conservatives! Thank you SOOO much!