[Mount Athos]

I see the author calls Miers a "constitutionalist" in the title, but offers not once piece of evidence in the entire article to back up this description of her.

In nominating Miers, Bush bypassed a rather large stable of judicial candidates with a strong history of documented conservative philosophy. For what? What is the positive case for Miers?

Many well meaning presidents have offered up "trust me" candidates, who have proven to be disasters. Conservative disgust and mistrust of this nomination is very well founded.

I see a lot of "blaming the victim" directed at conservatives who rightly expected a candidate with a documented history of conservative judicial philosophy.

[Hendrix]

"In nominating Miers, Bush bypassed a rather large stable of judicial candidates with a strong history of documented conservative philosophy. For what? What is the positive case for Miers?"

There are four reasons Bush picked this woman:

1. To reward a loyal member of his staff with a perk (this is the biggest reason).

2. Because she does not have a paper trail.

3. Because she is a woman and Bush bought into the diversity nonsense.

4. Because some of the democrats recommended her and Bush wanted to appease the democrats with a non-conservative pick to "keep the balance" of the court.