Oh, Harriet. Her former friends and colleagues are not showing her any love:
David Frum, the former White House speechwriter who helped coin the phrase “axis of evil,” is coordinating the anti-Miers fundraising effort.
The first phase of the campaign is estimated to cost between $50,000 and $100,000. Frum declined to comment on how or when the money might be spent, whether on newspaper, radio or Internet advertisements.
He said underwriters had expressed an interest in putting up the money and he had planned to go back to them when he and other strategists decided the best way to spend it.
He is teaming up with other conservatives behind the scenes to generate opposition to Miers’s nomination, which his former colleagues at the White House are straining to sell to the conservative base.
