Miers Fallout

Michelle Malkin has some more good round up of the virtually unanimous conservative disappointment (anger, frustration, sense of betrayal) on the Miers nomination.

She has a link to a blog, Froggy Ruminations, that makes some good points:
In my opinion, this is the President’s way of saying that its naptime. He tried to get the Social Security package through and failed, he's taken a beating on Iraq and Katrina, and now he seems to have lost his stomach for a fight. He may have accepted his lame duck status early, and with the Hammer out of the picture, he doesn’t have a good pitch for the count so he’s going to ride the pine for the rest of the game. I hope I’m wrong, but this funk surrounding the White House has been thickening for a few months now, and I am not confident that it will lift.

Here’s the big question. Do the Democrats smell blood in the water and bork her anyway (with the cooperation of Senate conservatives) and put the President on the run? Or do they count their blessings, confirm her, and step up the lame duck rhetoric and use Republican frustration against the White House to stymie further legislative priorities? Because Republicans often eat their own over principled disagreements, Dems can capitalize on this and we lose our tax cuts and get to choke on more Katrina/Entitlement/Welfare spending.

The main defense for Miers seems to be "chill out and trust Bush". A lot of conservatives are rejecting that and I agree with them.

1. First and foremost, we've already been asked to go with CJ Roberts on trust. His limited track record was an issue early on, but those concerns disappeared during the hearings. They haven't gone away -- at least not as far as I'm concerned. Roberts has yet to hand down a single Sup. Ct. opinion and until he has issued several, we're still in "trust me" mode. Check some of Ann Coulter's previous columns for more on this thinking.
2. Damnit, why should we even have to go with a "trust me" nominee at all?? The last time I checked we had a Republican president, a Republican House and a Republican Senate. If that's the case, why don't we have an assertive conservative agenda? Why are we pussy-footing around with a stealth candidate? Nominate a solid conservative and tell the Dems to stuff it if they don't like it. The American people voted for the Republicans. If the Dems want to control the agenda and dictate policy then WIN AN ELECTION!
3. Finally -- and I know I said this before -- Bush should know the Dems are going to put up a fight and trash his nominee, so why not nominate someone worth fighting for!! For crying out loud, does the White House really believe that the Dems are going to give Miers a pass because she has no paper trail? Do they think they aren't going to dredge up, or more likely make up, some objections? To the contrary, like whipped curs, you can expect them to come a runnin' because the liberal agitators will have been using those whips with a fury as they vent their rage on Schumer, Kennedy, et al for letting Roberts "off the hook" so easily.

I read one conservative blogger who said he wouldn't go as far as vote for Dems, but wouldn't support Republicans again. Hear. Hear. I am thoroughly sick of Republicans who run as conservatives and govern as moderates -- or worse. Where is the party of conservatives who will actually govern as conservatives for the conservative voters who can elect them?