I’m sparing you from most of the quick F-you types: ***

… You sawed off
the limb you were sitting on, not by opposing Miers, but by the
repulsive manner in which you went about it. You can justify your
behavior all you want by referencing your hate mail, but it was your
behavior that did you in. You didn’t defeat the Miers nomination, you
bludgeoned it. But the net result of that is that you utterly destroyed
your own credibility. You, personally, sank to levels that would make
someone like Joe Conason gag.
But you’re not alone. If you think that anyone will ever take you all
seriously again, think again. I didn’t become a conservative to be
associated with a nincompoop like you.

***

You guys in the Corner have been my favorite people online, other than
during the Miers nomination process. Yeah, I do think you went overboard
along with many others on my side, and reading some of the praise about
Miers written by Corner contributors who were just yesterday savaging
this woman is a little difficult to swallow.
You’re right, we need to move on. But this certainly has left a bad
taste in my mouth.

***

I don’t know who Alito is
Therefore, he’s obviously unqualified. What a disaster.

***

…Jesus himself will judge you some day as He said “you must be born again.”

***

Subject: Sickening
The gloating and backslapping you idiots are engaging in, in the wake of
destroying the Bush presidency. You do realize that the emasculation of this
adminsitration means the war on terror is dead, kaput, finished? We will
have no one to blame for this fact but people like you.
I hope there are terrible reprecussions for you and your ilk in the wake of
your contemptible smear campaign against Harriet Miers. I hope that
mainstream conservatives will reach the same conclusion you have forced upon
me–that your magazine and the opinions it espouses are opinions best
ignored, as they are being spouted by the same Manhattan/Beltway clique that
produces the NYT, The New Republic and other contemptible left-wing rags.
The truth is, reading your hysterical prattle about Miers these last few
weeks, I couldn’t tell the difference between you and any of these
“esteemed” publications. It was sickening, and not just because you people
are so wrong (I would trust Harriet Miers exponentially more than John
Roberts to do the right thing–something you will sadly learn as he morphs
into Anthony Kennedy), and not just because you used such vile smear tactics
(John Derbyshire calling Harriet Miers a mediocrity? It would be hilarious
if it wasn’t so sad), but also because you proved yourselves to be the worst
sort of double-dealing, back-stabbing, hypocritical slime.
The only good thing that might come of this is that you will succeed in
provoking a civil war within the movement and that another sect will rise up
and destroy you in the way Buckley once destroyed the equally odious John
Birchers.

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Subject: You’re pathetic
Are you happy now? Are you and your fellow cry-babies at NRO finally going
to shut up now, or flush with false influence are you going to now find
something else to beat the President over the head with?
While you and the K Street crowd were screaming at each other inside the
echo chamber, the rest of the real conservatives in the Red States were
willing to wait and see, to trust the one man who we could count on to mean
what he says and always has. But you denied him his right as President.
And you hurt badly him in the process. And now that it’s over don’t you
ever think for a second that we’ll forget how you piled on Mr. Bush while he
was down just to satisfy your own selfish motives. You’re no better than
the Democrats.
I can only hope that you all get your comeuppance and the President and the
people extract their pound of flesh from you self-important pundits and
bloggers in return for your inexplicable savagery of Ms. Miers. Your
so-called victory should come at a high price and I for one will celebrate
upon its collection. And when the next nominee is announced, don’t you DARE
open your mouth even once regardless who it is. I didn’t vote for George W.
Bush just so some airheaded ex-sorority girl with a keyboard could decide
who sits on the Supreme Court.

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I’ve never seen bunch of conservatives so happy about the failures of another conservative.
If any of you claim that you help precipitate this her withdrawal, I’m going to first throw up and then second stop reading NRO.
A disappointed conservative.

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Just wanted to let you know since you’re the editor of NRO that this is my last visit. I’ll miss Victor David Hansen a lot but the rest of you are absolutely vile and instead of furthering the Conservatives have caused terrible damage. You should all be ashamed but I’m sure you’re too busy pouring champagne and celebrating.
I’m also cancelling my subscription to National Review.
You people make me sick.

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Ms. Lopez,
I have emailed you before. I have praised the Corner in the past. I used to visit the Corner multiple times, daily. On weekends, too.
No more.
The way you treated Harriet Miers was disgusting. The personal attacks, snide jokes and plain nastiness exhibited by you, Podhoretz, and Frum were especially nauseating.
I saw this not as just a character assassination of a very accomplished woman, but a repudiation of President Bush. I have seen hints of it before, but now it is all out in the open. No use being “cute” about it anymore. NRO readers know your true colors now.
You think people will forget. I won’t.
…How did you get to become the editor of NRO? Did you even graduate from
college?
Remember prepositions are our friends.

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I will never be able to feel about you folks the way I did before Miers. The scorn and contempt and mockery and self righteous indignation coming from ya’ll has shown me a picture of you I can’t understand or hardly believe. I always thought you were a good Christian girl with a kind loving heart. But the mean spiritedness coming from you in particular has given me doubts. I know we’re not supposed to judge others, but the venom has been pretty blatant. Have you EVER considered how your words may have hurt Harriet? Or the President? George Bush didn’t deserve this from you folks. I’m so disappointed, angry and demoralized.