Good post.
As for Miers, she's an evangelical, mission-sponsoring pro-life Christian. She's loyal to GWB.
...And she chaired the research team that picked Judge Pryor from Alabama and Judge Janice Rogers Brown from California.
My biggest complaint is that she's too old. I'll live.
I'm 68, at 60 she's just a young chick AFAIC.
But yeah, i understand your concern about her age. If she turns out to be a solid SC justice I would like for her to stick around long after I'm looking up at the grass from the underside. I read that her mother is 93 and still going for more, so she should have inherited some good genes.