“Miers was a ridiculous nomination, and Bush paid for it with conservatives. She was Bushs personal lawyer; not a judge, and not somebody with the gravitas to sit on the Supreme Court. Roberts was a much better choice, given only those 2 candidates.”
There’s no requirement in the Constitution that a Supreme Court Justice has to have been a judge or a lawyer previous to their appointment to the Court. Forty-one of our Justices in fact had no prior law or judicial experience prior to their appointments.
The fact that you believe that a Justice should have been a lawyer first just shows that you’ve been suckered by the leftist media and their friends in the American Bar Association.
At a time when Bush needed to appear strong, the Miers nomination made him look weak. It was a big waste of political capital.