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...Having never been a judge, Miers lacks even the relatively limited body of decisions that Chief Justice John G. Roberts had when he went through the nomination process, which may make her an even easier sell to the Senate. "She will be very hard to oppose," a Republican strategist said. "Bush seems to be saying, 'I dare you.'" The official Republican talking points say: "Like Justice O'Connor, throughout her career, Ms. Miers has been a female trailblazer." She is single, and Republicans are emphasizing her closeness to her family and her community involvement-plus her "strong voice...
...assemblyman who was the main backer. "He is pandering to the far right." Indeed, with the Governor's popularity rating down to 36% and Democrats alienated by his attacks on public-service unions, Schwarzenegger is now "more dependent on his Republican base than ever," says Allan Hoffenblum, a G.O.P. strategist in Los Angeles...
...refuse to acknowledge that global warming even exists, it has become something of an obsession with him. The immigration-reform bill he introduced last month would beef up border security but give undocumented aliens a path to legalization, which many on the right oppose. Says McCain's chief political strategist John Weaver: "You can appeal to the base in a way and a manner that excites them but also in a way that does not put off the broad middle of the country. If he runs, that will be our thesis...
...even pose the question of whether Rove will pay the price for his role in the Plame debacle? Rove is a political strategist who knows precisely what to say?or not to say?to keep himself out of hot water. He knew exactly what he was doing with his campaign of innuendo and rumor. Unfortunately, somebody else is going to end up taking the fall for Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois...
HOWARD WOLFSON, Democratic strategist, on the former G.O.P. Governor of Massachusetts' entry into the New York gubernatorial race. A win would make Weld the second American, after Sam Houston, to have governed two states...