In the end ALL THINGS in this creation come down to one man (or woman's) take on it. Just one. Not some committee. Not some consensus. Not some advisory panel. Not some (*yuch-pitoowy*) poll.
White House adviser Ed Gillespie suggested that some of the unease about Miers "has a whiff of sexism and a whiff of elitism."
You make it sound like some personal decision that has no impact on the rest of us.