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This describes me and I can guarantee you I am not in the top 1% of the legal profession in this country NOR do I believe I should be on the Supreme Court.

G. Will: The wisdom of presumptive opposition to Miers' confirmation flows from the fact that constitutional reasoning is a talent -- a skill acquired, as intellectual skills are, by years of practice sustained by intense interest.

While I'm nonplussed by this nominee and even more nonplussed by this President, I don't agree with the prevailing opinion that we need a legal genius on the court. If you are credentialed as being in "the top 1% of the legal profession" I have enormous reason to distrust you. They were these inventive and creative folk, ever in search or novelty and prestige to took us on this road to hell, paved with their good intentions. Godlike elitism may be what is worst about our Judicial System.

It isn't about elitism - it is about mental acuity, independence and courage.
I would have been overjoyed to see John Cornyn, John Kyl, Ted Olson etc nominated to the Supreme Court.
Their above average intellect and legal skills have been forged in the fire of politics and they are solid and nimble enough to stand their own on the court.