Gracias. Folks here seem to think that being confirmed as an associate justice is like being elected a junior senator from North Dakota. They do more than case a vote. They need to be able to persuade their colleagues on the Court. They need to write opinions. It seems that so many have bought into the politicization of the Court, they don't know what the Court is supposed to be.
They don't care. They think they're defending the president. They don't care about Miers, except that Bush nominated her. He could nominate an activist and they'd say trust us.
Don't mean to pour a bit of cold water on this argument, but if anyone thinks Ginsberg, Souter, etc are persuadeable (is that a word?), I've got some bad news. Won't happen.
If a nomination is based on solely writing or framing an opinion, Miers is eminently qualified. Miers said she respects the rule of law and the Constitution. If one had to go on that facet alone, she's eminently qualified, especially in the current climate of "judicial tyranny", given how the judicial branch has shredded parts of the Constitution, stifled the "will of the people", and created more problems by overstepping into the legislative branch's territory by legislating from the bench. Her opinion would be the tipping point of alot of these 5-4 decisions.