I am glad men of valor and morality like Kennedy, Schummer, and Keyes have stood in opposition to Miers. She might have viewed unborn fetuses in non-legalistic...or even human terms.
"I am glad men of valor and morality like Kennedy, Schummer, and Keyes have stood in opposition to Miers. She might have viewed unborn fetuses in non-legalistic...or even human terms."
She MIGHT have.
But then again, she might not have.
Many folks on the pro-life side did not have confidence in her candidacy because they were not comfortable with her past positions on things. It wasn't just the Kennedys and Schumers who opposed her.
Supreme Court openings come only once in a blue moon, and lots of people were not willing to take a gamble on a candidate who didn't look strong to THEM, regardless of Bush's support of her.
So, they exercised their political rights and opposed the candidacy, vociferously. And she decided that she didn't want to go through with it all.
Schumer voted for the war along with the Republicans. His initial support for the war does not deprive the war of legitimacy, just as his opposition to Miers does not render those Republicans who opposed her candidacy somehow equivalent.