What do we know about her?
This is what I have been able to discern, mostly from information and links that have been posted on FR (America's most trusted source of news):
1. Miers has
donated only to two Congressional candidates, Pete Sessions and Jon Newton. In both cases, she gave the maximum $1000 to these Texas Republicans.
Sessions has a very good pro-life voting record, rated 0% by NARAL.
Newton has been outspoken and uncompromising in his support for the unborn.
2. Miers has been an active member of the
Valley View Christian Church in Dallas for twenty-five years. Based on their web site, this is a bible-believing Church, so her membership does indicate that she is a born again Christian.
3. Miers also donated to Don Stenberg's re-election campaign. Stenberg was the Attorney General of Nebraska and
he is pro-life. He faced harsh criticism from the left because of his energetic defense of Nebraska's ban on partial birth abortion.
4. As President of the Texas Bar, Miers opposed the resolution by the American Bar Association to officially endorse killing unborn babies.
5. Miers
donated to Al Gore in 1988. But that was when Gore was pro-life. Southern conservative Democrats were snookered by their national party and many later switched to the GOP. Others, like Gore, flipped over to the dark side and became devout leftists. Good southern Democrat conservatives are a thing of the past, but they were not so in 1988.
I think the President has made a good choice for the Supreme Court.
I can't fault her for being a Dem. in the 80s. Texas had been a Dem state forever. I can't fault her for giving to Al Gore in 88. I voted for him then myself. Thought he was a good ole conservative southerner. My guess is that the gift to klintoon was a "carryover" from the late 80s mindset. So I'll give her a pass on that (maybe).
This issue is not whether Ms. Miers will turn out to be conservative. The issue is that Bush could have, and should have, nominated one of the good, powerful, intellectually brilliant candidates rather than an unknown.
That is the real issue.
He also should have nominated someone younger who could serve longer.