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My original comment wasn't about Ms. Miers, but about Ms. Coulter desire to maintain the fiction that one must be a lawyer (and super duper legal beagle at that) in order to serve on SCOTUS.

There are many fine citizens who could serve, not just Harriet Miers and by continuing to appoint lawyers and only lawyers to the courts we have put the foxes in charge of the hen house.

Zell Miller was a democrat once too, as was Ronald Reagan and most of citizens of the southern states as well at one time.

Did you know Mary Magdelene was a whore once? And the Apostle Paul persecuted Christians to their death? People change, the world changes. Only the truth remains unchanged.

I will withhold judgement on Ms Miers until I have had time to actually study her previous work and writing.

Yes, I agree on the Democrat conversion part. But a Democrat praising Bush's pick is not good. Not good at all. I still think we need lawyers. Why? Well we need lawyers and/or those understand law on the bench. Think about it. Lawyers sit down and deal with law that revolves around Constitution all the time.

How many people out there know and understand the relation of the 14th Amend. to the States and how Liberals use it to ban prayer in schools via the 1st Amend? Not too many. There is an entire legal process that those outside of law do not understand. I am not a lawyer though I have studied government and am still doing it today. I can tell you that from what I know is that we need an astute judge on the bench who really understands what they are doing. Someone who knows the laws and how to operate it should be on the bench. A person of principle and who has one agenda and that is to govern by the Constitution and not to legislate or add unto it.

Most importantly these people are judges. They are on the 'HIGHEST COURT' in the land. You don't want someone who doesn't understand law on the bench. Maybe Miers isn't as bad as we think. But I would have preferred that Bush had selected someone with a better background and a known Originalist, even if that means the Democrats bloody them. Its better than playing softball. To say the least Bush has failed the Conservative movement on numerous occasions and this is only one more let down that he has made. Of course maybe you're only Socially Conservative. I mean that is the trend today isn't it? Maybe you're not. But true Conservatives know and understand that the Constitution is what makes this land and government great. When will the GOP wake up and seal our borders off, deport all illegals, and go back to governing how the Constitution should be interpreted? That is a question that I as well as others would like to know. Bush needs to quit playing nice and playing touch football with the Democrats and start acting like he has a pair.