Terry, I wasn't really including you in the group of nattering, naybobs of negativity. I was referring to the group of posters that have been posting ridiculous articles opposing Meirs and any other possible Bush nomination. If you check some of these people's posts, you will see that they have made only negative comments about all the judicial nominations and have not posted on any other subject for the past few months. They have an obvious agenda, though I am not certain what it is, possibly libertarian.
There is plenty of reason to object to the Meirs nomination, but the petty criticisms that have been made in many of the articles make no valid point. The real reason to object is the one Rush has given, that by nominating a woman with no judicial experience, Bush has avoided the fight with the left over the judiciary, a fight that conservatives have been waging ever since the Bork nomination. It is disappointing, but it doesn't give conservatives the right to personalize the attacks on Meirs and Bork her themselves.
No one-least of all from our side-is attempting to discredit her character, or implying that she is some satanic figure that will do irreversible damage to the Constitution.
In fact, I haven't seen one major conservative commentator who hasn't complimented her service, or hasn't acknowledged her intelligence.
However, I don't see why we should be preemptively silenced into accepting what appears to most people to be a very poor choice.