Bush has created a disturbing precedent in choosing Roberts and Miers. He has sent the unmistakable message that known conservatives need not apply. Some will say, "...but look at his appellate appointments." Sure, he made excellent appellate appointments, but he left them to twist in the wind in his first term. He won re-election (thanks to Jerome Corsi and John O'Neill) otherwise the appointments he abandoned in his first term never would've made it this time around. I'm sure the stealthy nature of his SC nominations are not lost on his appellate appointments, either.
The backlash to this appointment is about the fact that Bush has done nothing to earn the faith that you give him freely.
Then I did something truly radical! I actually went and looked at her history and what she's done with her life, what she's done on the Bush administration, what her beliefs are, what all she's done in her very conservative evangelical Church the past 20 years, how she's from Texas and always been conservative even when she was a Democrat when the whole STATE was HUGE MAJORITY Democrat controlled, the kind of person she is, who her friends are and how they are out supporting her and how they happen to be well known very conservative people and organizations. Along with the fact that her and Laura Bush are close friends, and only a fool would suggest that Laura Bush is anything BUT a strong conservative Christian. THEN I took the unprecedented action of praying that Bush was right and made the right call based on his decade+ long professional and personal relationship with her and she was a real constructionist that would adjudicate that way on the court, and I turned it over to God, that it would turn out that way. Now, I simply stand on that decision I made, until such time that it becomes evident that she was not a good pick, IF that happens.
To me, this is not primarily political. It is an act of faith after over a week of research, deliberation, weighing personal endorsements by those who are known conservatives and personally know her for many years, and in no small part, prayer. I simply do not feel in my heart that this is a mistake, like I remember feeling with Kennedy and Souter. I remember feeling that Scalia and Thomas was a home run while it happened, and that breyer and ginsburg were horrible cancers on the Judicial branch. I also recall never being too impressed with o'conner. And as it turns out, I was right on ALL of those. The same with Roberts so far. I used the same process when each happened to decide for MYSELF. Listening, research, deliberation, and prayer. So if my take on Miers is wrong, it will be the first time, and that happens, but NO ONE will convince me of that until it actually happens. NO ONE has a crystal ball, and until someone who is a proven conservative who has known Miers personally for years, comes out against her, no one has the insight or knowledge to prove that she is not right for the Supreme Court. That's just plainly flatly how it is from a factual standpoint in reality. Just like I believe that we will be victorious in Iraq because the cause is just and right, and freedom is the right of ALL humans, NOT just those lucky to have been born into a nation where it already existed before them. First and foremost though, I believe about this the way I do because I prefer to stand in strength in belief of what God willing, WILL BE, based on fact and evidence, and I choose NOT to stand in fear and trembling of what God forbid, MIGHT BE, based on agenda driven secular opinion and supposition from a distance. I guess it's just how I choose to see things. It's just that simple.
Time will tell. And in a few months, I don't believe those making these comments about Miers and Bush and those of us here supporting her nomination, will be here singing the same tune. Frankly, I don't think any of them will have the brass to be in any Miers thread at all, which is typically the case when someone goes out on a limb to vilify someone and is then proven wrong. If Miers turns out to be a souter or even an o'conner, I will be greatly disappointed, but ultimately all things happen for a reason, and I believe Bush to be a man of God who has prayed about this nomination, and I believe that Miers is a woman of God who believes her faith is meant to support the law of this land, not be removed from it in all ways. And given that believe, I don't know how else to proceed than to think that this nomination will be for the good of the country, and the SCOTUS. Bush has proven, if nothing else, that he is a Christian and he takes his relationship with and faith in God VERY seriously, and no one can or should question that. We will see.