Here’s a quick look at the mix in the in-box:

*Kathryn,
Your attempts to have the nomination of Miers rescinded have become unbearable. I will no longer be a reader of NRO. I find this situation most unfortunate, and the shrill tenor of your remarks are utterly ridiculous. I cannot help but wonder if your response would be different if Miers was a catholic girl. You guys have become a disgrace, and the high standing of NR on deadtree has been significantly tarnished as a result of the online editors’ behavior.
*I get it now! You’re just jealous…someone else praises Bush more than you do, and your mind just can’t take it…
On a more serious note, keep up the good work at NRO. I’m a semi-longtime reader, given the fact that I’m less than half as old as NRDT, and I’m right with you on the Miers stuff.
*K-Lo,
I’m surprised at all the criticism you’re getting because you’re not supporting Miers. The average Republican in Alabama is split on her, but the activists are livid. No one, and I mean, NO ONE I hang with supports this nominee. While National Review does sometimes strike an insular note, you are not out of touch on this one. The only support she does have is through her evangelical connections, otherwise she’d have nothing. I’m an evangelic Christian and I don’t support her (www.prosandcons.us). Keep up the great work!!!
*I know that you “beltway conservatives” are being criticized as elitist for your opposition to Miers. I’m writing to you as a rube born, raised, and living in Colorado, and I want to tell you that there are those of us living here in flyover country that are demoralized by Miers’ nomination as well. In fact, I contacted my Republican senator (Wayne Allard) for the first time to let him know that many of us here are profoundly disappointed. Hope he passes it along to President Bush.
*Thanks for standing your ground with the Miers debacle. I am a long term conservative who has voted GOP since Reagan ‘80. Bush promised us more than Miers when he campaigned and I am disappointed he has tried to pass off yet another stealth candidate. What so embarrassing about conservatism that he his candidates cannot admit where they stand.I have waited 20 years for this, and now we get a crony with no known judicial philosophy. I am refusing to tow the party line anymore, even if Hewitt lectures me and calls me a knucklehead.
All I have is my vote, and if the Republicans have failed me on this, the most important political decision in years, what do I owe them?
*Kathryn –
You have now lost me as a faithful Corner reader.
Yes, you are too young to understand this Glass Ceiling stuff. And no, it doesn’t reek of sexists. For those of us, the age of George, Laura and Harriet… what she has accomplished as a female speaks volumes. I know how I had to fight and struggle as a female, first in the education world, and then moving into the business environment. It wasn’t and hasn’t been easy. I’ve had men half stand, slamming their hand hard down on the table, trying to belittle me, to get their way.
And the way a woman of our age had success in these man dominated businesses, was playing fairly and smarter. I know female lawyers of this age, and trust me, that fight that Harriet did for her success is not to be misunderestimated.
So — yes, you are too young, and it angers some of us that you don’t respect the road we paved for you. Thank Barbara Walters for females in media… and she had to fight hard. I don’t see you females in media calling sexist in your field.
After the confirmation, whether for or against it, I’ll check back in, to see if you all are still in your “slam our Prez” mode. That cover of a beached sailboat is a low blow. Our President doesn’t deserve that and lots of us out here think our President did the right thing — don’t start a war if you don’t have the soldiers to fight. And he knew he didn’t, not with our current Senate.
The below the belt remarks about the morning appearance and your comments about the glass ceiling — well, it turned my stomach. I’ve fought hard in a man’s world to get to where I am, and now I feel like a Vietnam vet coming home — no thanks or support, even feeling spit upon. I’m of that age.
*You know, I was expecting a little more flag-waving for Bush, from NRO. I’m very pleased to see the contrary.
I wouldn’t call myself a “grassroots general,” but I have to say NRO is on the right track: the more I discover about this woman, the less I like her. While she’s certainly qualified to be a supreme court justice, that doesn’t change the fact that she appears to be a bad choice.
At any rate, kudos from the flyover states.
*Subject: I DON’T THINK THE VITRIOL IS HERE
It most certainly is. Don’t you understand that people are reacting to the way that you have and are going about this?
You’ve destroyed yourselves. You don’t get that?
“Snarky undergraduates” barely captures it. When those of us out here want the President mocked and treated explicitly or implicitly like a moron we’ll read Maureen Dowd.
*I didn’t know you were guys were taking so much flack on the Miers nomination until now. I figured I’d write a very quick letter of support before I get back to work.
So here it is – you are doing a great job. Take heart, NRO, we still love you. From Jonah’s Tommy Boy quips and over-played Simpsons references, to Ramesh’s literally scary smartness, to K-Lo’s caffeine-addled early-morning super-posting — it’s always time well spent.
Besides, in all seriousness, Frum won this argument days ago. The nomination hearings and paper trail might yet prove him wrong, but I haven’t seen anything yet that puts a dent in his opposition (and I don’t exactly march lock-step with Frum either, he just happens to be exceeedingly persuasive on this one).
*I’m tired of reading the corner it used to be a place where I could go for insight into the issues of the day, but now its just a bunch of complainers yapping at the keyboard. What a disappointment, now the First Lady is your cross hairs. We all know now your better then all of us common folk, and if only we had your towering intellect we would understand why your so
opposed to the Miers nomination. If only the National Review could run
the country and save us from ourselves.
One who used like the National Review.
*You are loosing us out here in the prairies. Get a grip.
*Subject: Crazy
You folks at NRO have lost touch with reality, and you’re destroying yourselves in the process.
One would think, by now, that you would have a better sense of GWB. When has he ever kowtowed to those who are disloyal?
You wanted a pissing contest & you will have one. But you will lose. He will say to the Repub senators: “You are either with me or you are against me – take your pick.” And, virtually all of them will fall in line.
At that point, all the NRO aristocrats will look like total fools.