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.
you know why that message is leaking out there? because it is REALITY-- in a Senate that is not sufficiently conservative to get an openly hard core conservative past. And you know what? I think that conservative jurists are probably able to figure that reality out on their own. Did you read Thomas Sowell on Harriet?
For the rest of us, she is a stealth nominee. Not since The Invisible Man has there been so much stealth. That's not ideal by a long shot. But ideal was probably never in the cards, given the weak sisters among the Republicans' Senate "majority
There are some who have articulated that point well, that it is Bush they are mad at for PICKING her.
But then others mostly argue how incompetent and unqualified she is, making it all about her, and not about his pick.