Don’t get me wrong, I think she has potential, but without that track record in the Federal courts, I think its way too early and she would have been unnecessarily risky at this stage.
I agree with you. The interesting thing is that the one prominent GOP nominee from the last few decades (other than that dingbat Harriet Miers, that is) who had a very thin Federal court track record was Clarence Thomas — who was nominated in late 1991 after less than a year and a half on the D.C. Court of Appeals.