[A.Hun]

Harriet Miers might be a nice person, but there is no record of her being the kind of deep thinker needed on the bench.

Exactly who said we need a deep thinker? I was and am tired of ivory tower eggheads deciding law on things they never experience.

Meirs was treated disgracefully by conservatives, and trashing her and the President hurt us. I elected GWB to decide who to put on the court, not Ann Coulter.

[Blackirish]

Meirs was treated disgracefully by conservatives, and trashing her and the President hurt us. I elected GWB to decide who to put on the court, not Ann Coulter

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I don't care how she was treated conservatives worked 20 to get the supreme court and we deserved much better then some crony.and it wasn't just Coulter it was Maulkin...Rush...Will...Krystol...Krauthammer...pretty much everyone.... .If she didn't like the heat she shouldn't of picked herself...but then I'm no fan of "Chief Jorge Big Spender"

[TChad]

It wouldn't surprise me if the Miers debacle caused some Republicans to say "screw politics" and stay home on election day. The nomination set the base at each others throats in a way that the Roberts and Alito nominations did not. This was easily predictable and easily avoidable.

It is possible that she would have been a competent justice (though I doubt it), but it seems obvious that the nomination was a mistake, if only for the pointless infighting it caused.