She is an unknown to most people, and its natural that people will be suspicious of her qualifications.
The pattern seems to be, these days, for posts requiring senate confirmation, to pick someone with no paper trail, and then have them duck and weave their way past the senate hearings. That kind of thing is enormously unsatisfying to most people. It is not a recipe for getting the best people. We get them, occasionally, but its always a happy surprise when it happens.
I want someone with a paper trail. I want another Bork, frankly, someone who is outspoken and who has plenty of history defending constitutional principles, and the accepted wisdom seems to be, since the Bork debacle, that such a person has no chance. Obviously he had no chance before a Democratic Senate back in the eighties, but that was then and, I would like to think, this is now.
As I have said elsewhere, Miers will win me over if she is outspoken and brilliant when she faces the senate hearings. If she goes in and tries to avoid answering questions, I won't be happy. If she can state her positions (something that, these days, no one likes to do openly), if she can defend them, if she can light off a firestorm and face it boldly, I'll be on her side.
She is a stealth candidate, but that is something that a little boldness will cure the moment she faces the Senate, if boldness is in her. If she insists on remaining a stealth candidate, I'll continue to be uneasy about her.
That's plenty good enuf for me, dear marron! Truly I am looking forward to these hearings: We'll see what kind of "stuff" this "pit bull in size 6 shoes" is really made of.
So good to hear from you!