[Cicero]

I've only read one piece of her writing, I must confess. But I found it flat and unimpressive. I had much the same impression as this. Whatever you think of Podhoretz, he's a fine stylist, and he knows whereof he speaks.

Shakespeare says that "style is the man." Read any editorial by Maureen Dowd and you quickly understand what kind of mind she has. There's nothing like that in Miers's style, but to me it reveals a pedestrian mind, very dangerous among the sharks on the Supreme Court. Yes, she's a convinced Christian and a successful office manager. But I've yet to be convinced that she can stand up to the pressures on SCOTUS.

[MNJohnnie]

I've yet to be convinced that she can stand up to the pressures on SCOTUS.

Right a political running for the Dallas City Council who tells a Gay activist group that she would NOT support efforts to repeal the Texas Sodomy Law is REALLY going "buckle" under the pressure. A person who, unlike ANY "hero" of the Conservative Legal Establishment, has put in writing her clear cut support for the 2nd Amendment as a personal Right is going to be a "weak" choice" A devote Christian secure and active in her faith despite all the derision that probably causes among her glib Establishment co workers is REALLY going be a weak kneed as say...Oh any of the 90 Senators who voted this week for the Terrorist Protection amendment.

Sorry, you are still grasping at straws to rationalize the position you WANT to adopt Marcus.

[Miss Marple]

I didn't know style points were part of the requirement for a justice.

These people are not convincing me. The longer they rant, the less I respect them. They apparently think that their continuing tirades are going to somehow make President Bush withdraw her name.

He has done what he felt was right for 5 years, despite the best efforts of the Mainstream Media with their constant attcks and outright lies. He really isn't going to care what those guys on the National Review say, either.

[Maceman]

But I've yet to be convinced that she can stand up to the pressures on SCOTUS.

What pressures would those be? Losing her job? Anyone else here have a guaranteed job for life?

Maybe you mean that the other 8 justices will look down on her and it will hurt her feelings? I don't think so.

She doesn't even have to write anything if she doesn't want to. All she has to do is vote and sign on to a decision or a dissent written by somebody else.

Not saying whether or not she will be a good justice. Jury is still out on that.

But please -- pressures? I'd swap her job pressures for mine any day of the week.

[Sam Hill]

And by Shakespeare you mean George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon.

[AmishDude]

Please explain to me why it would be bad if she waited to hear from Scalia and Thomas and, if they agreed, voted the same way and then went home to let Scalia or Roberts write the opinion.

JPod is really pissing me off. She has an undergraduate degree in mathematics. Sorry, that makes her smarter than any of her detractors and at least 90% of the Constitutional law faculty at Harvard and Yale.

[XJarhead]

Yes, she's a convinced Christian and a successful office manager.

Well, you lost all credibility with that "successful office manager" line. Anyone who equates "office manager" with "managing partner" has no clue about the legal community.

It is odd that so many people who have no experience as practicing lawyers so freely opine on exactly what a top level commericial lawyer actually does. Like so many other things, people think that reading about something on the internet makes them an expert.

[wtc911]

Shakespeare says that "style is the man."

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Not Willie, a Frenchman, Leclerc du Buffon I think.

[Artemis Webb]

"I've only read one piece of her writing, I must confess. But I found it flat and unimpressive. I had much the same impression as this. Whatever you think of Podhoretz, he's a fine stylist, and he knows whereof he speaks."

Nonsense, however well written, is still nonsense.

[HitmanLV]

But I've yet to be convinced that she can stand up to the pressures on SCOTUS.

What pressures are those? she hears the case, has her peeps research the law, and then she comes to a defendable position. Repeat a few thousand times and that's a career on the USSC.

What pressure?

[goldstategop]

Exactly. It would be more reassuring if she had firm views for without them the pressures of serving on the Court invariably drive one to the Left. And there's where she's a mystery. If the President had nominated Debbie Schlussel - he would have gotten a Jew and a woman. As well as a conservative whose writings reveal her to be a fearless and independent thinker. Exactly the kind of person we need on the Supreme Court. There are also other qualified women who would have been a superb choice. In other words, the President picked someone few in the base feel passionately committed to supporting for the job.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)