What we have learned since - and could have guessed - is that Bush first decided it had to be a woman, for affirmative action and ease of confirmation reasons - and that the most qualified in that deliberately limited pool of the less than best turned it down as not worth the political circus involved in a confirmation fight. Leaving us with the most experienced female lawyer friend of the President who is willing to have spitballs thrown at her - a stellar recommendation, isn't it?
Naturally, some of the blame for that state of affairs belongs on other shoulders. Those who inventing "Borking", those who have appeased affirmative action nonsense for decades, those unwilling to put up with personal attacks for a greater good for their country, etc. But it is a profile in the opposite of courage, any way you slice it.
The only point I was making in comparing Miers to Marshall was the lack of judicial experience should not be a deciding factor. You might want to try drinking your hate instead of spewing it.