" Harriet Miers was offered the chance to join and she turned it down without the slightest bit of hesitation."
Interesting bit of information, Do you have a link to this story?
A more apt analogy would be a member of the College of Cardinals who was eligible to be selected as the next pontiff, but who had spent sixty years of his life desperately avoiding comment on any controversial doctrinal issue.
Miers rejected the Fed. Society-and if you want confirmation of this you can just punch up the revelatory pieces published recently in the WSJ by writers like Dan Heninger and John Fund-for either of two reasons:
1. She wanted to avoid being tied to any controversial-read Constitutionalist-judicial philosophy,
or
2. She has no such philosophy to speak of, and merely arrives at her views on an ad hoc, Justice Burger-like basis.
Neither possibility is comforting in the least.