[BigSkyFreeper]

Still - its not gonna change many conservative bloggers' outrage.

Course it's not. What's obvious is Conservative bloggers are going out on limbs, digging through the rubbish to find anything, because unlike 61%, they don't want fair hearings. They have some preconcieved pent-up rage over "knowing little about her".

[goldstategop]

She's a late convert to conservatism. As far as we know she was a Democrat most of her life. She joined the Bush campaign when - in 1994? President Bush may know her personally but most people don't know her record and what they do learn only tells them that a lot of loyal conservatives were passed over. Its not exactly an exercise in celebrating conservative courage in Washington's hostile liberal culture.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Kryptonite]

Ping me when a conservative blogger mentions the filibusters and the McCain-led Gang of 7's deal with the devil.

Until then I don't give a damn what any of them think.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

What's obvious is Conservative bloggers are going out on limbs, digging through the rubbish to find anything, because unlike 61%, they don't want fair hearings. They have some preconcieved pent-up rage over "knowing little about her".

Who doesn't want fair hearings? There are some bloggers who would like to have NO hearings because they'd prefer Miers withdraw. Then Bush can nominate a judge who is ON RECORD being an originalist for a number of years as opposed to Miers, whose judicial philosophy is one big fat question mark, possibly even to herself.

[libstripper]

They have some preconceived pent-up rage over "knowing little about her".

Did you ever think our "preconceived rage" could actually be deep trepidation based on over 50 years of experience with Republican Presidents, whom we had enthusiastically supported, contributed, worked for, and voted for, selecting "trust me" nominees, all seven of whom ended going over to the dark side: Eisenhower (Warren & Brennan), Nixon (Blackmun), Ford (Stevens), Reagan (O'Connor & Kennedy), and Bush I (Souter). Zero for seven is quite a track record. Eventually, after 50 years of bad picks like these, it's time to get suspicious and look askance at the eighth. The old saying is "once burned, twice smart." We've burned seven times; we ought finally to get smart on the eighth.

[Redbob]

"They have some preconcieved pent-up rage over "knowing little about her"."

A thoroughly justified rage, if you consider some of the other justices that GOP Presidents have foisted on an uncritical people: David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Sandy Day O'Connor,...