"But is she intellectually strong enough to resist the leftist pull of the media/Beltway cocktail set? Anthony Kennedy wasn't."
This is all a big myth. The SC judges that turned liberal were never conservative in the first place. They were "trust us" they are conservative picks. Conservative judges don't drift to being liberal and liberal judges don't drift to being conservative.
Well, okay, but I don't think the only thing we have to worry about are her basic beliefs (conservative vs. liberal), but how strong and unflappable (vs. apathetic and squooshy) she is in them.