Even if they would have filibustered, so what? He got a fight he didn't want by picking Miers. Wrong war, wrong time, as JF'in K used to say. Would have been better off fighting the bad guys instead of us.
"Even if they would have filibustered, so what?"
Ok, let's think this through. You can't get Miers through. Good or bad, it's a reality. Who's next?
Al Gonzales? I can tell you, it won't encouraged anyone, conservative or otherwise, who was THINKING of putting themselves forward as a candidate, to put themselves through what Rush has accurately described as a long drawn out public anal exam.
Seriously...if that is the outcome with a nominee that many of the CONSERVATIVES are opposed to, how likely is it really that you would get a second nominee MORE conservative.
I'm not saying that is how it should be. It's like that old Jack Nicholson movie..."It's doesn't have to make sense. It's Chinatown."
"It's Washington."
..and letting the country see the lefties attacking a qualified candidate, proving they put their ideology above country.