Creepy Miers article) A Love that was benched by their careers

[MADem]

This has got to be one of the most unusual articles about a Supreme Court nominee, ever. Cue up the Love Story theme if you decide to read the whole thing!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-couple8oct08,0,5228343.story?coll=la-home-headlines

HOUSTON — He was a country boy who grew up on a wheat farm, she a city girl who played on her high school tennis team.

The lives of Nathan Hecht and Harriet E. Miers began to intertwine in the early 1970s, shortly after they finished law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Soon, they were rising stars at the same law firm, and their lives seemed to be converging in every way. They were earnest, ambitious and increasingly affectionate with one another. Friends thought they would get married.

Instead, for 30 years, Hecht and Miers — President Bush's Supreme Court nominee — have nurtured a kinship that has entranced and confounded their closest friends. They are traditional conservatives content in a modern, nontraditional relationship, one that leaves plenty of time for their true love, their work, to take center stage....

[cornermouse]

1. Looks like PR department desperation in motion to me.

If they'd really been that much in love with each other, they wouldn't have chosen the lives that they did. Looks like Bush's PR Department is getting desperate over the non-compliance from within their own ranks so they pulled out an old romance story hoping that it would appeal to their base.

[OKDem08]

2. yeah, right, like anyone is going to fall for that

is it possible for the polls to decline to negative values?

[acmavm]

15. You are severely misunderestimating the credibility factor of your

average bush**bot.

[Fridays Child]

3. A story about the mating rituals of cockroaches. How romantic.

:puke:

[Missy M]

4. Even the worse Harlequin Romance Novel doesn't read that bad...

what does this have to do with qualifications for a Supreme Court nominee. What are they hiding or trying to convey.

[gaspee]

5. Duh

They're trying to prove she's not one 'a them evil lesbians! In their binary brains, a 60 year old never married woman with a career = lesbian.

[Missy M]

7. Not all 60 year old never married women with careers are...

lesbians. I don't know whether or not Miers is and I don't really care. I only care if she is qualified and what her views are on many issues.

[MADem]

14. And they seem to just IGNORE statistics--singleness is increasing

"The postponement of marriage has led to a substantial increase in the
proportion of young, never-married adults," said Jason Fields, author of
America's Families and Living Arrangements: March 2000. "For example, in
the past three decades, the proportion of those who had never married
doubled for women ages 20 to 24, from 36 percent to 73 percent, and more
than tripled for women ages 30 to 34, from 6 percent to 22 percent."

Other findings:

- In the 30 years from 1970 to 2000, the average size of the nation's
households decreased from 3.14 to 2.62 persons.

- In 2000, 10 percent of the nation's households contained five or
more persons, down from 21 percent in 1970; 59 percent of households
had one or two persons in 2000, up from 46 percent in 1970.

- The proportion of households consisting of one person living alone
increased from 17 percent in 1970 to 26 percent in 2000.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-113.html

[MADem]

12. That was precisely my first thought

The old pandering gender stuff at work? Or the employment of the old pandering gender stuff to distract from the lack of qualifications? And then, anyone who COMPLAINS is being MEAN???

I was shocked at the PAPER that printed this tripe, frankly--I thought they were a bit better than this.

[TomClash]

6. And the American people respond!

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. SHE WITHDREW! did she not? Or did I dream that?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. nope. wishful thinking. Another nominee withdrew because of Abramoff

silly, silly me.

[patricia92243]

10. Wonder of Falwell, Dobson etc will thing it's "romantic" n/t

[NMDemDist2]

11. so I should assume, since they are good "Christians" and "live what they

preach" that they are both virgins and has subsumed their passion into "good works"?

yeah, right......

:puke:

There is something wrong with people who don't/can't make a committment to another, who choose to live alone without the willingness to love.

Dress it up however you want, but that article is a portrait of broken people whose emotional lives are crippled. While some people do chose to live single their whole lives, it isn't a testiment to emotional health and compassion.

just saying.....

[MADem]

13. Well, that's a bit of a broad brush

I had a much older female relative whose mantra was "LIVE ALONE...and LIKE IT!!" She enjoyed her social life throughout the years, was never in short supply of ardent suitors, but nothing made her happier than to take off her girdle (they wore them in those days), put on a housecoat, have a cuppa tea, and read a good book or watch TV...ALONE!

[NMDemDist2]

16. I'm not arguing that lots of folks do better alone and do it well. but

this article didn't sound like a vision of such folks

[MADem]

17. True, it sounds like...dare I say...PROPAGANDA nt

[alarimer]

19. Some of us prefer to live alone

because we don't like LIVING with other people. At least that's it for me. My place is MINE. People can visit but they have to leave. Eventually.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Theory

When I was in grad school, I knew a woman student who was hopelessly in love with an obviously gay man. She told everyone that there was no one for her but him.

They were constant companions in a buddy sort of way and went to events together. She acted as a willing "beard" for the man for several years.

Could the relationship described in the article be something similar?

[MADem]

20. Who knows? I just found it a bit creepy, this sort of tabloidy

true romance type story about a potential SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. It just seems...UNSEEMLY to me.

But I suppose there's no other story, and that could be the reason--no landmark rulings from her circuit court bench, because she has never sat on one, no fiery defenses in courtrooms, because there's none o' that either...but I guess she schmoozes good and makes a mean cuppa coffee. She also helped the monkey cut brush, and handed him the BIN LADIN DETERMINED memo on 6 Aug 01. How do you make a feel good story out of that??

Enter, the ex-boyfriend, I guess...