Go ahead, ‘misunderestimate’ Bush’s pick

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers may actually benefit from being underestimated, John Dickerson writes in this article.
“The caricature of Miers that is emerging is so pathetic, her inadequacies so exaggerated, her inarticulateness so certain, that by the time she speaks in the committee room, she’s almost certain to seem appealing.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

5 Comments

  1. Galahad
    Posted October 10, 2005 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

    Anybody who steams off Ann Coulter as much as she does, can’t be all bad.

    Compared to BushCo’s major blunders (ignoring Al Qaeda, invading Iraq, running the country into historic high debt), she doesn’t seem too terrible . . .

  2. XXX
    Posted October 10, 2005 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    I saw Ann Coulter on Bill Maher the other night. I think it’s the first time I ever heard her speechless. She just didn’t have her usual bag of snappy comebacks. I’m with Sir G. If Mier makes Ann Coulter gag, she’s got to have something going for her.

  3. Jed
    Posted October 10, 2005 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    Galahad,Even the best Bush has to offer can’t be much! All the good people have either been fired or jumped ship. None would want to be Bush’s choice, since it would haunt the rest of their career.

  4. R.D.Liebst
    Posted October 12, 2005 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    Me thinks they do protest too much!The more I think about it the more I do wonder about a smoke screen.The R.R, the Neo-cons and now Ann!The A.G. was just on GMA saying she is smart enough, she is pretty enough and dog gone I like her!Sigh another G.W. appointee.

  5. Ed Friedemann
    Posted October 12, 2005 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    Karl Rove discusses her religious views, which are far-right, with other evangelical nut-cases.

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/12/D8D6JKBGC.html