What Dobson knows about Miers that you don't.

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According to the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Dobson quelled the controversy by saying that Karl Rove, the White House's deputy chief of staff, had not given him assurances about how a Justice Miers would vote. "I would have loved to have known how Harriet Miers views Roe v. Wade," Mr. Dobson said last week. "But even if Karl had known the answer to that--and I'm certain that he didn't because the president himself said he didn't know--Karl would not have told me that. That's the most incendiary information that's out there, and it was never part of our discussion."

It might, however, have been part of another discussion. On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination was announced, Mr. Dobson and other religious conservatives held a conference call to discuss the nomination. One of the people on the call took extensive notes, which I have obtained. According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers's close friends--both sitting judges--said during the call that she would vote to overturn Roe.

The call was moderated by the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association. Participating were 13 members of the executive committee of the Arlington Group, an umbrella alliance of 60 religious conservative groups, including Gary Bauer of American Values, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and the Rev. Bill Owens, a black minister. Also on the call were Justice Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court and Judge Ed Kinkeade, a Dallas-based federal trial judge.
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007415
 
I don't care about Roe v. Wade, why I don't want her on the supreme court is a potential conflict of interest. I want impartial judges in SCOTUS when a case that deals with White House comes up, and they will come up.
 
Remember when Wildmon and Dobson were part of the fringe element and were laughed at?
 
Grammatron said:
I don't care about Roe v. Wade, why I don't want her on the supreme court is a potential conflict of interest. I want impartial judges in SCOTUS when a case that deals with White House comes up, and they will come up.
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Golly! Whose side are you on, anyhow?
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Or Dobson is simply lying to make himself look more important?

No direct evidence of that, but it fits in with his usual fund raising MO.
 
Tony said:
They still are.
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Not in the eyes of the Bush administration.

Last week, right-wing Focus on the Family head James Dobson said that his support for Harriet Miers was in part due to “confidential” information he had received during a phone conversation with Karl Rove.

This morning on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on Rove and Dobson to make public the details of their talk. He also announced that Dobson will likely be called to testify about the conversation before the Senate Judiciary Commitee:

SEN. SCHUMER: That is no way to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. For that nominee to refuse to answer questions to the American public, and then have someone supporting her do all this whispering saying ‘She’s okay, here is what she believes,’ is unfair. So as a result, I believe that we ought to call James Dobson as a witness at the Senate Judiciary hearing and find out what kind of assurances he has received. If those assurances are good enough for James Dobson, then all of America ought to hear them. … I believe my Democratic colleagues will go along and we will have James Dobson as a witness. Additionally, I think Karl Rove ought to let the public know what kind of assurances he gave James Dobson. This is not a game of wink and whisper. This is serious business.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/09/rove-dobson-miers/
 
But, but, but, but, Dobson said Roe never came up. A man of God wouldn't lie about something like that, would he? So the question is: would Dobson lie about it?
 
Cain said:
But, but, but, but, Dobson said Roe never came up. A man of God wouldn't lie about something like that, would he? So the question is: would Dobson lie about it?
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Absolutely. How do you think they get to be "men of God?"
 
Cain said:
But, but, but, but, Dobson said Roe never came up. A man of God wouldn't lie about something like that, would he? So the question is: would Dobson lie about it?
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I know you are being sarcastic but, having worked in the evangelical industry for a few years (I was very hungry at the time) I can tell you quite firmly that people like Dobson are capable of lying to the bathroom mirror and believing every single word of it.

These are without doubt the most fundamentally dishonest people I have ever met in my entire life.
 
If and when the Miers nomination is defeated be ready for all sorts of sturm und drang from the evangelical community about how it clearly reveals that Christians are being persecuted.
 
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