On balance, comparing Miers to Coulter, I would tend to agree that from a conservative perspective and based partly on her younger age for purposes of length of tenure, Coulter would have been a better pick.I would have seriously never suggested Coulter for the pick, but seeing as her background is Constitutional Law, we should have gone with Ann.
Seeing her take questions from Ted Kennedy would be worth the price of asmission.
Coulter does have decent credentials. Michigan runs neck-and-neck with UC Berkeley as the most highly regarded state-supported law school in the nation. To be named an editor of the Michigan Law Review is a stupendous academic achievement, and to clerk for an federal appeals court judge is a honor that only goes to the very brightest and most capable students. The only way she could have further burnished her academic credentials would have been to clerk for a SCOTUS justice, as Laura Ingraham did.
Miers' academic credentials are impressive, but rank second tier to Coulter's.
I guess the point is, if Bush was willing to reach down and tap Miers he could just have easily tapped Coulter and gotten an arguably better product. I'm not saying Coulter would have been confirmed. Far from it. But all personality conflicts aside, Coulter appears to be more capable of doing the job.
I would have seriously never suggested Coulter for the pick, but seeing as her background is Constitutional Law, we should have gone with Ann. Well, there will probably be at least one, and maybe two, more openings during Bush's term. Ann is pretty young so there's still hope. Although dissing his two picks so far isn't going to help her chances any.