You won't hear any complaints from me. The Civil Rights judicial oversight was intended to be a temporary, prophylactic measure. I see no reason why a narrowly-tailored racial affirmative action shouldn't follow under the same guise - find disadvantaged, talented minorities who showed potential and give them an extra boost.
In any case, I'm not yet convinced that Miers' conservative Christianity wasn't a part of the distaste some powerful persons had for her. I'll keep my eyes on that one to see that I hopefully am wrong.
It clearly wasn't the reason for my aversion. Indeed the "she's an Evangelical, hint, hint" whispering campaign alienated me, as an Evangelical. I felt pandered to.
I'm still not sure that this whole appointment wasn't some strategery that either backfired terribly or is working brilliantly.
I rather suspect it was like "New Coke" - they weren't brilliant enough to have come up with the New Coke flop as a marketing ploy to make everyone demand Coca-Cola Classic. Pres. Bush and his advisors miscalculated. Nothing more, nothing less. He probably figured, "Hey, my lawyer's done good work for me, she'd be a good Supreme Court justice." To a person unversed in the complexities of Constitutional law, that might even seem like a good idea.
The flop of Miers will force the conservatives to see the strength of the anti-nuclear option republicans in the Senate.