And so I ask you as I asked others. Name me one Judicial nominee that Bush has put on the court that has adjudicated as ANYTHING BUT a strong conservative strict constructionist Judge. JUST ONE! EVERY JUDGE Bush has put up has been the kind of judge he said he would put up in 1999. And you can't prove otherwise. I with that Border control was tighter and the budget was smaller, but that doesn't mean I'm going to turn on Bush because he isn't doing it the way I would. He's the President, not me, and he has information that you and I do not and never will have. And he KNOWS Harriet Miers. YOU do not.
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.