[Steve_Seattle]

A lot of conservatives just wanted a fight, they wanted some on-your-face person like Janice Rogers Brown, and Bush gave them this mild-mannered grandmotherly type. It's all about image; the feisty conservatives underrate Miers because she seems soft and they don't trust her intellectual powers or her toughness. I do. I'm sick of the brazen Ann Coulter types who just offend people and make themselves the issue.

[NittanyLion]

A lot of conservatives just wanted a fight, they wanted some on-your-face person like Janice Rogers Brown, and Bush gave them this mild-mannered grandmotherly type. It's all about image; the feisty conservatives underrate Miers because she seems soft and they don't trust her intellectual powers or her toughness. I do. I'm sick of the brazen Ann Coulter types who just offend people and make themselves the issue.

So, in short, you don't believe Laura Bush's contention that Miers' detractors are sexist.

Thanks for answering honestly.

[TAdams8591]

No. We wanted a proven conserative, with qualifications in the vein of Thomas and Scalia who would rule similarily, as the president promised. We would prefer not to have to fight to get such a nominee, but if we HAD to fight, we were willing. It would have been worth it.

Clarence Thomas was worth the fight and Janice Rogers Brown would have been also.