[Gimme]

So what you are saying is it's ok that a MAN is appointed but its somehow different when a 60 year old woman who has
the relatively the same prior experience and background as the recently deceaseed CHIEF, Justice Renquist? Is that what you are saying?!!!

[SpringheelJack]

its somehow different when a 60 year old woman who has the relatively the same prior experience and background as the recently deceaseed CHIEF, Justice Renquist?

Not hardly. Miers never clerked for a Supreme Court Justice or worked as Assistant Attorney General. Even compared to the weaker Supreme Court nominees Miers falls dramatically short.

[Goodgirlinred]

It sounds to me that that is what he is saying.

[BluH2o]

So what you are saying is it's ok that a MAN is appointed but its somehow different when a 60 year old woman who has the relatively the same prior experience and background as the recently deceaseed CHIEF, Justice Renquist? Is that what you are saying?!!!

Two things Renquist had going for him when appointed to the SC by Nixon back in 1972. He was in his late 40's ... not 60 like Miers. He served as Ass't Attorney General for Nixon prior to his nomination. His undergraduate degree was from Stanford, a post graduate degree in government from Harvard, then a law degree from his alma mater. He wrote 15 books over the course of his career ... Renquist was a heavy weight. Miers in contrast is a flyweight ... sort of like HS football vs. the NFL.