Sex and the Single Nominee

[rodeodance]

I do think this issue was an issue for many.


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Subject: Berkowitz-AlterNet-10.27-Say Goodbye to Harriet Miers
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Sex and the Single Nominee

By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet. Posted October 27, 2005.

Was it Harriet Miers' views on the Constitution or her lack of a male partner that made conservatives so squeamish?

Why did conservatives, including some on the religious right, successfully put the kibosh on President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers? According to HBO's Bill Maher, it had little to do with whether or not she was a master of constitutional law. And it wasn't about her being the President's best friend, either. It wasn't even related to whether she would overturn Roe v. Wade or set back civil rights for another generation.

Opposition to Miers' nomination may have had more to do with what the Right didn't know about her than what they did. And what they didn't know are details about her sexuality.

"It's not that Harriet Miers' views are a mystery," Maher quipped on Oct. 14, "It's that her genitalia are a mystery." The last time "genitalia" was mentioned in relation to a nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court was during the Clarence Thomas hearing more than a decade ago.

In typical Maher hyperbole, he declared that "there are only three possibilities if you've never married or had kids by 60": Miers is either "an asexual figure ... isn't using the equipment God gave her for making babies," a "practicing lesbian," or "a slut."

[MORE @ http://www.alternet.org/rights/27352/

[Crankie Avalon]

1. Oh, I don't know---I think this could have been a BIG issue for...

...rightwingers.

Normal people don't care and consider it none of their business, but rightwingers are very obsessed with other people's sex lives.

[Catfight]

2. And Condisleeza fit's "one" of those catagories too and Ann Coutergeist.