You are way overrating the numbers of the anti-Miers camp and you are sadly mistaken if you form a majority. Majority of conservatives and Republicans are either supportive of President Bush choice or they just want to wait and see before making judgment on Miers. Only a minority, but a very vocal one (talks show hosts and conservative pundits), are against her without knowing anything about her.You missed my point. The Miers nomination is ambiguous, which is why there is such controversy. By your comments to me, you indicated that President Bush could nominate anybody for the SCOTUS, and you'd trust him. Right?
What you admitted by making "trust in the President's discernmment" the sole criterion by which to judge a nominee was: the rest of the country could recognize clearly that a nominee was merely a blatant shoe-licking doofus, and you'd still "trust" that he'd made a good choice.
I absolutely trust his choice and his judgment because I know that he knows hundred times more than all of us combined on who is best to serve a Supreme Court justice.