Just wanted to report that the sky is still up in the air here in Georgia, no sign of falling yet.
Many FReepers would love to see a judicial activist choice as long as that activist marched in lockstep with their thinking.
As for me, I'll take someone with the correct philosphy and intelligence and leave them to come to the right conclusions.
By my calculations, there are precisely 15,132,764 Americans who are intelligent enough and have the proper Constitutional understanding and philosphy to be a SCOTUS judge. We have to hope that Miers is one of those 15 million.
Many Freepers who are already lining up against her would not fit the mold, because they are too narrow-minded to judge fairly on the Constitutional merits of the issues.
Comparing the desire for a judicial originalist with wanting an activist is a nonsense analogy.
This is W's brand of affirmative action. Circumvent the proven quantities who've paid the dues and shown their mettle for an unknown quantity with a democrat past and no evidence whatsoever that she will fit the mold of Scalia and Thomas since, well, he's known her for twenty years.