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:: Friday, October 28, 2005 ::
Polishing the Spin for Nominee #2
Democratic spin on the demise of the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court sets up the spin that will be applied to the new nomination to come.
According to Democratic senators, the Miers nomination was sunk by the “right wing” (Sen. John Kerry), “the far right wing” (Sen. Byron Dorgan), “the extreme right wing” (Sen. Dick Durban), “the radical right wing” (Minority Leader Harry Reid), “extreme partisan pressure” (Sen. Mary Landrau), “extremists” (Sen. Ted Kennedy).
The talking point that goes with this is that Miers was “not extreme enough” to satisfy “the right wing crazies.”
This predictably sets up the Democratic liberal spinspeak for Nominee #2: Clearly, unless a cloned Justice Souter with a sex change is put forward as a "mainstream" candidate, Nominee #2 will be characterized as an “extreme far right wing radical” or a “radical far right wing extremist” or a “far right wing extreme radical partisan” depending on the mainstream media news cycle.
:: James Baar 10/28/2005 11:34:00 AM [+] ::
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