Again you miss my point. It's not JUST about her or her predicted performance. Plenty dismay has been expressed as "missed opportunity."
And I hear that the GOP thinks the criticism is bullshiite.
And I felt the same way. I would have preferred Luddig or Owens or Pryor, but it didn't happen. The milk has been spilt. Tough cookies. After review, this woman looks like she would be a good solid conservative, and since Bush knows her personally and has for many years that may be the very reason he picked her and NOT one of those other judges, because if you recall, three of the last four Republican nominiated SC Justices were judges before their nominations, and the Republican President who nominated them didn't know them from Adam, and they didn't work out too well, did they? Maybe Bush felt the best way to guarnatee a very conservative Justice on the bench was to go with someone he knew for years, to Bush, Miers IS a known commodity. Instead of a judge whom everyone says is a good conservative, like people told his Daddy Souter was. That didn't work out so hot either.