I've posted the information following this paragraph in two (2) other threads. I believe, however, it is also relevant to this thread.
In 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush chose David Souter, an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supereme Court Judge over Judge Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Souter was labeled a stealth justice by the press. Jones had already well established her conservative credentials.
As a United States Supreme Court justice, Souter has been a liberal. Is there a single occasion in which he voted with Justices Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in a single 5-4 vote? Meanwhile, Judge Edith H. Jones has continued to compile an outstanding conservative record.
Is there not a single conservative judge with a track record that President Bush could have picked over Harriet Miers? If being a woman was a requirement to be selected, was there not a single conservative female judge with a track record that President Bush could have picked over Harriet Miers? What was wrong with choosing a female judge with an outstanding conservative track record such as Edith H. Jones?