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The issue isn't with Miers herself...it's with Miers being picked. As i posted before, I wanted the liberals to scream in agony when Bush announced his pick. Instead we had the left, right, and middle breath a collective "Huh?"

I wanted the liberals to scream in agony when Bush announced his pick

While Schadenfreude may be a good thing, judging something based solely on this criteria is silly. I know we all would have loved to "hear the lamentations of their women", but I'll take a favorable end result, any day.

"The issue isn't with Miers herself...it's with Miers being picked."

Imazing how many people fail to get that point. Bush by nominating stealh (maybe good, maybe not so good) SC judges is telling the world that conservative judges, with a conservative record, will not ever be nominated to the SC by the GOP. Mean while Rats can nominate ACLU lawyers and the GOP will go along, but the GOP can only nominate judges with no conservative paper trail. This is complete BULL, nothing against Miers, not her fault, Bush is the problem and his problem is he is NOT conservative and does nothing to advance a conservative agenda, he is all talk and no action. Time and time and time again he put the knife into the backs of conservatives. The GOP can forget conservative support in 06 or 08, let see how the GOP likes it when conservatives do not work for GOP candidates and either vote third party or stay home. The GOP better get all those illegals registered by 06 cause they are going to need that vote.

Those whose primary qualification for the pick is that it make the democrats scream in rage are correct, under that measure she is not qualified. At least it doesn't appear to be, although I imagine by the time we get to the actual hearings her strong evangelical christian ties and work with like-minded organizations are going to lead to a very "interesting" battle.

A lot of conservatives wanted the fight. They wanted the nuclear option to get rid of the filibuster. I wanted that as well, but figured when it came down to it the democrats wouldn't take that chance, and enough republicans like the filibuster to nuke the nuke.

The "we didn't get a fight" crowd are done. Meaning they are right, and probably nothing Harriet does will change that. But I have to think they are a minority of conservatives.

I know that I am more interested in getting scrict constructionists on the bench than I am in picking fights.