Carradine;
Do you think that a high-profile nominee would have turned around a number of Republican Senators, a la DeWine, Voinovich, et.al. besides the usual Liberal/Republican suspects? That's one of the fears I had - what an embarrassment that would have been.
Is it possible the White House didn't want to risk such an embarrassment?
This really is a twisted psycho-game, isn't it? My guess is that before this is over, we'll be defending Miers, and it just may be possible that we'll be looking at a filibuster, anyway. She may turn out not to be as "stealth" as I thought.
Do you think the Republicans use the nuclear option on a nominee like Miers, if it comes to that?
Or do they move on and ask the President for another nominee?