[ClaireSolt]

I don't know your age, or anything else. However, a single woman who is sixty has probably had to sacrifice the personal to her professional, because, as a rule men in our generation do not want sucessful wives. You can see it in Condi Rice, too. It is a sad fact that should be interpreted correctly and not used against her or used to imply that she might be gay.

Women have had to follow unique career paths, and her resume shows that sh accomplished a lot on her own. However, ture success comes with mentoring, in this case by Bush.

In general, I think Republicans treat their women better than the dems, though you wouln't know it from these threads this morning.

[BlackElk]

I am a man, a year younger than she is, married (once only until death do us part) with three kids. I do not doubt that many women in the early baby boom generation, and even more so, many women born earlier than that have had to sacrifice the personal life in order to attain professional achievement. That is a tragedy insofar as those women might have chosen to have a life with marriage and children. Some of them may still have chosen for whatever legitimate reason not to marry: the right guy never came along or was killed in Vietnam, marriage was a lesser priority than for others, enjoying the freedom that single life can offer, having witnessed bad marriages of others and not wanting the risk, or whatever.

I had not yet married at 40 and my own experience militates against my suspecting the single folks of alternative "affectional" preferences. I was firmly resolved to marry no one who was not trustworthy as to divorce. So far so good with no reason to suspect future changes.

Again, if anything I said seemed insensitive, I did not intend insensitivity and apologize for inartfulness in posting. On a number of matters, I insult others around here with the best of us, but this is not one of those matters.

As to Harriet Miers character and fitness, I will believe little or nothing of what I hear and about half of what I see. Generally, I have a good deal of trust in this president. My default position is that, if he chose her, I am going to be happy with Harriet Miers until SHE proves that I should not be. I would rather have had Janice Rogers Brown but no one elected me to make the appointment. I wish Harriet Miers the very best in her nomination and in her confirmation and in her tenure on SCOTUS.

I want her to help Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, CJ John Roberts and at least one more new justice to overrule Roe vs. Wade so bad that I can taste it. In the best case scenario, we will still need to persuade Anthony Kennedy or get another appointment to replace a pro-abort justice (Stephens? Ginsburg?). 45 million slaughtered is more than enough.