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She donated to Dimwits, her law firm remains a highly significant contributor to Dimwit campaigns, including Hillary's. As a Dallas city council member, she was well-liked by her liberal colleagues as someone they could easily work with in spite of being pro-life. She was with them on almost everything else.

According to THIS PAGE Miers left the Dallas City Council in 1991.

According to THIS PAGE she underwent a fundamental political transformation by 1994. The smaller PAC donations may have been more for professional goodwill than serious political commitment. But the seriousness of the actual campaign contributions shows where her real core is now, in my opinion.

This does NOT mean I'm thrilled she was nominated; I was rooting for JRB or Michael Luttig myself. But in attempting to be more objective and less emotional, I wish to put Miers' past indiscretions in their proper perspective. I was a DemocRAT once too, many years ago, and I know first-hand transformations can be sweeping even while you keep your old 'rat friends, business associates and clients.

What you see as political transformation I see as adapting to the reality that the Republicans had taken over Texas politics. She adapted right along with everyone else who is career-oriented rather than politically-driven. Her law firm continues to be a key Dimwit donor and will no doubt run cover for her come the hearings.

I am willing to bet that she will get a free ride from the Dims in the confirmation hearings. They have plenty of dirt: executive priilege and the holding back of documents, the Texas Lottery Commission and relationship with Barnes, her role as gatekeeper during the days before 9/11 and the runup to the war, etc. They will basically touch none of it, and make the hearings a love fest.

Why? They know the Republican base is disenchanted and they want to keep us that way into 2006. Frankly, I am disenchanted. At this point, I'd rather have an inneffective liberal government than an effective moderate, corporatist one. And I think quite a few conservatives agree with me.