>Are you honestly going to try to convince me that Harriet Miers is bad for our country but somehow Ruth Bader Ginsburg was good for our country?<
Yeah, how about Ginsburg? I don't remember the conservative base and Republican Senators putting up a fight against her nomination. In fact, almost all of the latter voted in her favor. The Republicans confirmed her as a gift to Clinton and the Democrats, not because she was "good for the country". Where was the outrage then?
There was PLENTY of outrage. Enough to help give people like Gingrich the hand they needed to turn out the base to vote in a Republican Congress end of 1994. You know, the same base that's going to stay home in 2006 and take Congress away from Republicans if the Republicans don't straighten up and fly right.
There wasn't the slightest bit of outrage over Ginsburg. On that contrary, even now it's assumed that the lunatic is perfectly "qualified" to interpret just about anything.
And, of course, that was much less important. Why? The left knows that if Miers is a conservative Roe V. Wade is in deep trouble.
And? We get the infilitrators who've been waiting for this moment for a very long time.