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I've felt the same way about her comments. It's not that I object to her passionately presenting her opinions about the Miers nomination...it's Coulter's selective representation of Miers legal background...referencing Miers tenure at the Texas Lottery Commission as a career highlight.

Coulter deliberately omits the following: 1972, FIRST woman attorney hired by a prestigious Dallas law firm, eventually attaining the position of the FIRST woman President of that law firm. 1985 (when Coulter was a talented young lass of 24) Miers became the FIRST woman President of the Dallas Bar Association and later the FIRST woman President of the Texas Bar Association.

Ann Coulter (born in what 1961 or so?) has reaped the benefits of the dedicated & hard working women that preceded her...in the 1970's or even into the 1980's...Ms Miers was out there slugging out with the "big boys" who still just didn't quite believe a woman could be as talented or career-minded as the male of the species.

Now Ms Miers has to prove her worth again...this time to a woman whose career path was undoubtedly eased by Ms Mier's years of hard work, dedication & obvious ABILITY !!!!

I have no problem with Ann Coulter NOT approving of Ms Miers' nomination. I have no problem with Ann Coulter using her God given gift of wit to disparage Ms Miers (I usually enjoy it when the focus is say...John Kerry). I do not enjoy Ann Coulter omitting significant details to make her argument "sound better".

It worries me...because of all the times I've agreed with Ann Coulter, vocally supported her to those who find her "shrill", and took her representations as the complete truth... Now, I wonder...what other facts (on a variety of issues that Ann Coulter speaks on) have been selectively omitted...
It's a complaint I've heard Ann make about the MSM and a variety of liberals...I just a bit saddened to see her become the pot calling the kettle black...

I cannot agree with you more. Perhaps one of the reasons I am so disgusted with this column is that I am 2 years younger than Ms. Miers. I took a degree in geology when there were darn few women geologists. I wasn't particularly adept at climbing the corporate ladder, and I left to stay at home and raise my son and a daughter with some medical problems.

I well remember the years when I first entered the field, though. I had to do everything better just to be accepted as competent. I had to listen to crude jokes. I was once asked if I took birth control pills in an interview.

I didn't have the toughness to pursue my career. Harriet Miers did.

Ann Coulter denigrating Harriet Miers, who broke ground for people like Ann, is just shameful.

I have no doubt that people are disappointed. In my fantasies, I wanted Janice Rogers Brown and a knock-down fight with lots of juicy put downs of kennedy, Schumer, and Durbin.

But it is obvious to me that Miers is the best conservative that we will get confirmed in this environment. I count 7 Republicans that would not vote for a Janice Rogers Brown, minimum. Given that situation, it seems to me that (at least in public) we should take this as a win. It sure would help me deal with my disappointment in the conservative pundits if they could manage to be less elitist, condescending, and insulting.

I just don't like the level of venom in this article. It really does sound like Maureen Dowd, and that's pretty frightening.

1985 (when Coulter was a talented young lass of 24) Miers became the FIRST woman President of the Dallas Bar Association and later the FIRST woman President of the Texas Bar Association.

Good for her. Sandra Day O'Connor had been on the Supreme Court for four years by then, so her service as an officer of some professional organization is hardly trail-blazing - rather, it is just the sort of demographic trivia that liberals obsess over, and could not possibly be less relevant as a qualification to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

I hope she turns out okay, but have no reason to believe that this is a good choice. I do think it is a slap in the face to many very qualified jurists, some of them even (as if it matters) other women.