I’ve just watched NRO columnist and AEI scholar, David Frum, on three different news programs tonight: Hardball with Chris Matthews, Nightline and Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show.

He deserves serious credit for instigating the withdrawal of the Miers nomination. He was a reluctant, yet pressing critic of this decision from the very beginning. He used his tremendous gravitas in Washingon legal circles to start a kind of “grassroots” movement against Harriet Miers (John M. mentioned the website in an earlier post). As Mr. Frum indicated repeatedly tonight, he still considers himself a strong supporter of the Bush Administration: “sometimes you’re friends are wrong.” Still, as a matter of principle, he believed the president made a profound miscalculation with Harriet Miers. I had some contact and correspondence with Mr. Frum when I worked at AEI, and have always considered him an intellectual role model. I think he deserves a big “kudos” from everyone here at Savethegop.com for possibly saving the Supreme Court and the Bush presidency. His e-mail address is DFrum@aei.org. Drop him a line!

I think Frum’s campaign to thwart the Miers nomination proves that so-called “neoconservatives” do care about social issues and the furtherance of the conservative legal agenda. Frum is really the ideal conservative. He supports the Bush Doctrine in the war on terror - strong and aggressive military action in the short-run to destroy terrorist cells and the long-run promotion of freedom in the Middle East so as to undermine the ideological foundation for Islamofascism. But he is also unquestionably solid on social and domestic issues. He is a conservative who has appropriately adopted a neorealist strategy in the war on terror. I would encourage all readers to peruse his book (co-written with another great “neocon,” Richard Perle) entitled An End To Evil.

Mr. Frum made a great point at the end of his Nightline appearance (something to the effect of): “If the president makes the right decision, he’ll have a united party behind him for all of the other problems facing him [i.e., war in Iraq and possible indictments].”

He is absolutely right. President Bush has a golden opportunity - a rare second chance - to rectify this honest error in judgement and make amends with the conservative base. If he comes through with a solid and distinguished conservative jurist, he will be well-positioned to not only confirm this nominee, but also effectively prosecute and win the war in Iraq - the most important challenge facing our nation today. President Bush can’t miss the ball again. If he picks the right judge, all will be forgiven and his presidency will have been given new life.

Investor’s Business Daily slams the Washington Post today in a scathing editorial discussing media coverage of the Wilson affair. As we prepare for possible indictments tomorrow of top White House officials, the media continues to overlook the truth about Joe Wilson - the foreign service officer who investigated the uranium/yellowcake connection between Iraq and Niger in 2002. The media has predictably portrayed Ambassador Wilson as the hapless victim of the Bush White House, a bold analyst who was smeared by Karl Rove and Vice-President Cheney because he dared to tell the “”truth” about Iraq War intelligence.

Don’t believe this for a second. Wilson is the liar. The bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Pre-Iraq War Intelligence and British Intelligence have all confirmed that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger. Case closed… just don’t count on the media to report this any time soon. Will the bias and incompetency ever end?