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My opinion only, but as an "Evangelical" Christian (although I typically do not use that phrase)...I believe I am fully qualified to read & understand the Bible without needing a variety of theologians to explain to me what is "actually" written therein as applicable to "me". The Constitution and documents establishing our Nation were written by men with a variety of educational levels...and written in plain enough language to be understood by "We the People...".

Harriett Miers obviously knows the law...she obviously knows how to formulate solid decisions based on her life's work & "mediocre" legal training. She might not be able to cite case law with the ease of a John Roberts, but she's been out there living & dealing with the real world not just hypothetical legal theory. Hypothetical theory has managed to find a way for the most basic right of the individual to own private property...to be usurped by the "state"... (This post was in direct response to a specific question re: why "Evangelical Christians" seem to be supporting Miers more than "Intellectual" Conservatives. I probably would have personally preferred a more known & academically stellar conservative to be named...but I think Miers is certainly a qualified candidate...and on her worst day, I'd back her decisions over some of the inane ones that have been made lately by the activist Courts....)

She might have been out there in the real world, but at what level has she practiced law? Almost all lawyers are prostitutes, selling their legal services instead of their bodies. At the federal level, the intricacies of the law and the Constitution are debated much more often then facts of guilt or innocence. Commercial or criminal law is not the best basis of expertise for an associate justice.

My opinion only, but as an "Evangelical" Christian (although I typically do not use that phrase)...I believe I am fully qualified to read & understand the Bible without needing a variety of theologians to explain to me what is "actually" written therein as applicable to "me". The Constitution and documents establishing our Nation were written by men with a variety of educational levels...and written in plain enough language to be understood by "We the People...".

Thank you SergeantsLady. Very well said.

George Will, though he was once a talented writer, is a condescending @#$%$! (pardon my French). He doesn't surprise me anymore.

But I'm appalled at the elitist snobbery so many of my fellow conservatives -- directed yesterday at Harriet Miers, and today at the president himself. Seems to me there's waaaaaay too much misunderestimating going on heah.

I think our Founders would heartily approve of the nomination of Harriet Miers, once they got over the shock of the appointment of a woman.

And I think our Founders would heartily DISapprove of the idea that constitutional law is so abstruse that only an elite cult of Ivory Tower esotericists can deal with it!

To paraphrase Willliam F. Buckley: I would rather be ruled by the first 500 graduates of Southern Methodist University than by the cream of the crop of the Ivy League.