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I haven’t popped any champagne, but I am drinking this morning’s coffee out of my Bush-Cheney mug. My mug sat untouched since Miers nomination was announced. Hope has been restored.

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I just wanted to send a big thank you to NRO for being out front at the
beginning of this Miers fiasco with sound, critical judgment when so
many others on the right were very eager to trust the President and
support the nomination.
It was awful to see the division among conservatives over this poor
choice of the President’s. And it was shameful to see the pressures the
White House and their knee-jerk friends upon upon committed — but
thoughtful — soldiers for the cause for judicial sanity like you guys
at NRO, with all the absurd accusations about sexism and elitism.
But you guys weathered all of this with flying colors, keeping so many
of us readers informed and focused on what is truly at stake. I don’t
think it is an exaggeration to say that now we can owe this potentially
GOP-saving withdrawal of Miers’s nomination partly to the perseverence
and fidelity to principle exhibited by excellent journalists like yours.
So, THANK YOU. I’m sure you will all keep up the good work in the
coming rounds of the SCOTUS saga.

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K-Lo
Let me add my congratulations to you and everyone NR for once again, standing astride history and playing such an important part of the Miers withdrawal. File me in the ‘yeah, whatever’ folder with the other 50,000 emails on the subject you received today.
The whiny corespondents who can’t tell the difference between well-reasoned opposition to a bad, bad, bad decision and snarky ‘rebellion’ are probably unable to grasp that conservatism actually stands for something. Keep on doing what NR does, demonstrating that conservatism demands honest disagreement between informed individuals.
* Keep on doing what you’re doing.
* Try and get Derb to post more.
* Increase Jonah’s Ritalin dosage.
Well done guys.
Faster Please.

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I am thrilled to be a conservative
today.

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K,
I was very late coming to the “stop Miers” party. Only last night did I announce, on FR, my shift to opposing Miers. (Boy do I have some clout, huh?) You guys were right all along.
Now let’s all pray that Bush nominates a real conservative. (It may be, oddly enough, that this conservative firestorm has sent enough of a warning to RINOs that the conservs could be the deciding factors in their campaigns, and therefore the “gang of 7″ would actually support a real conservative. Course, what do I know?)

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Kathryn,
You and the other folks at NRO deserve many kudos for helping to scuttle the Miers nomination. It’s great to be part of a movement (conservatives) that stands up for principle rather than supporting our President no matter what he does, as the other side is wont to do. Laura Ingraham, Rush, the NR gang all make me proud to be a conservative. You all showed your independence and that we aren’t party drones. If our guy gets it wrong, we call him on it.
You’ve done our country a great service…

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I am so proud to be conservative right now. Congrats on the good work in the Corner accomplishing this goal. Hopefully Bush won’t screw us over a second time.

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Thanks so much to you and everyone at The Corner for taking a difficult but principled stand through this whole mess. Even though I’m from far outside the Beltway, I can appreciate how hard it was to take this stand against a president we’ve all come to admire. He simply got it wrong this time — but thanks to honest friends like you he was able to correct his mistake before it was too late.
Now let’s keep our fingers crossed about her replacement.
Thanks again!