[Ol' Sparky]

Good news and bad in the article. She comes off as a pro-life liberal that supports affirmative action and feminism...

In another instance, candidate Miers agreed to sit down with a group of abortion rights activists. Operation Rescue was staging regular protests at area abortion clinics, and the group of about 10 women who met with Miers wanted to know whether she supported a 1985 city ordinance that protected patients from harassment. Four of the women in attendance said in interviews that Miers was immovable.

"She said, well, I'm sorry, it's murder, and that's that," said Joy Mankoff, founder of a local women's political action network. "There was no room for any discussion."

Although the women left the meeting convinced that Miers was completely opposed to abortion rights, one, liberal lawyer Louise B. Raggio, continued to support Miers and still does. Miers, for her part, has raised money to promote a lecture series on women's issues bearing Raggio's name. The first speaker was feminist Gloria Steinem.

"The abortion issue is a bad issue for me," Raggio acknowledged, "but overall you look at the whole, and there are many issues I could agree with her on."

[msnimje]

This article is insightful but like a roller coaster ride. I would read one paragraph and think "Oh, that is great" but upon reading the next my thought was "Uh Oh."

I would like to know her reason for not seeking reelection.

[DJ MacWoW]

I don't know as I'd believe ANYTHING the WaPo says about Miers.

From an article: In an initial chat with Miers, according to several people with knowledge of the exchange, Leahy asked her to name her favorite Supreme Court justices. Miers responded with "Warren" -- which led Leahy to ask her whether she meant former Chief Justice Earl Warren, a liberal icon, or former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative who voted for Roe v. Wade . Miers said she meant Warren Burger, the sources said.

Miers Names Favorite Justice: Burger (Who Voted For Roe)

Then THIS comes out: This is what I'm told happened:

"Miers was asked about Justices she admired. She responded that she admired different Justices for different reasons, including Warren — interrupted by Senator Leahy — Burger for his administrative skills.

Reasonable people could ask whether Burger was a great administrator, but the comment is taken out of context by the Washington Post. Miers didn't express admiration for his jurisprudence."

http://bench.nationalreview.com/archives/078890.asp

Do you think the MSM is trying to slime her? They wouldn't do THAT would they.

[Lexinom]

"That's the thing about Harriet -- she did things she didn't have to do and that, if you were only looking out for yourself, you wouldn't do," said John Wiley Price, the Democratic county commissioner whose arrest sparked the protest. "She was gutsy."
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A loner who liked to say that she made her decisions based on "the facts," Miers brought a lawyer's intellect and courtroom demeanor to a venue where ego-massaging, compromise and vote trading were more common. She left elected office of her own choosing after one term, lamenting to a local reporter that "decisions are more political" than an effort to reach the "right result."
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"We spent about 1,200 hours together and had in excess of 6,000 agenda items, and I never knew where Harriet was going to be on any of those items until she cast her vote," former council colleague Jim Buerger said. "I wouldn't consider her a liberal, a moderate or a conservative, and I can't honestly think of any cause she championed."
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"I want to be respected, and I want to be viewed as being true to my convictions," she told a newspaper. "But I don't much care what people think."

Let's see... minority rights, pro-life, fortitude to do what's right regardless of what people may think on the Left or the Right... She sounds to me like someone with an unusual innate sense of right and wrong AKA justice.

[tlb]

For the most part I admire what I have been learning of this nominee. She will likely do just fine on the court. If people think back many of the same doubts were expressed about Clarence Thomas before the "media lynching" caused people to circle the wagons around him.

In the meantime the tantrums over here are the best entertainment Du and the like could ask for. It reminds me of the months prior to the 1992 election when the far right worked as hard as they possibly could to tear down GHB, and in so doing elected Bill Clinton instead.

Btw, notice how people who speak well of Miers are now being called "Bushbots"? I thought the Schivo matter had taken this place down as low as it was likely to go, but I wonder how deep the actual bottom will turn out to be.

[Wuli]

She left elected office of her own choosing after one term, lamenting to a local reporter that "decisions are more political" than an effort to reach the "right result."

"She pressed hard for solutions, and she was the one who would come up with alternatives," said Mike Daniel, one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs. "She clearly perceived the need for a remedy."

My personal guess is that she will not be a Scalia, a Thomas or even a Roberts. She may agree with them from time to time, but she will go off the reservation when she is persuaded that "justice" for the plaintiffs deserves more than the justice the law and the constitution demand.

The benevolent "desire" is a strong desire in all persons. You need great intellectual fortitude on the Supreme Court to protect the constitution from your own compassion, and to place the object of that compassion where it belongs, in the legislatures.

[joebuck]

This thing reads like a puff piece trying to sell Miers to the left while not alienating her any more than possible with the right. That's what scares me most about this nominee - the left is WAY to anxious to accept her. Much to anxious. I don't think its some master counter-psychology ploy by the left either. ("if we act like we love her that will terrify W's base who will then reject him and say nasty things about him on FR - yeah, yeah, that's the ticket."). I think the Dems, like all predators, know it when they spot the weak animal in the herd. They see her as someone they can make "grow" with lots of false flattery and enough invitations to the right partys.

[irish guard]

Check out the take on this article.....not sure I believe it is true, but we may have misunderestimated Bush once again...its long but darn interesting

http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/10/8/0481/04691