News Release: Vanguard PAC Extremely Disappointed in Bush's Choice of Harriet Miers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 3, 2005

NICEVILLE, FLORIDA -- Rod D. Martin, Chairman of Vanguard PAC, one of America's leading conservative groups, today expressed extreme disappointment in President Bush's choice of Harriet Miers to replace the retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

"No one is more grateful for the President's leadership and conservatism than I am," said Martin, editor and co-author of last year's Thank You President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family and Revival of the Economy. "But this appointment is an enormous disappointment, and we simply can't support it.

"For twenty years, conservatives have waited for this moment to really change the course of the court. They've organized, they've convinced America, and they've won majorities at every level of government. And conservative legal minds have slaved away to become truly exceptional, and our appeals courts are filled with them, in part thanks to George Bush.

"Now, at the very moment when one o…