No doubt.
Well, here's another irony, along the lines of what you said.
Here's Bill Clinton, Rhodes Scholar, a supposed list of accomplishments and endorsements a yard long. What'd we say? "You idiots -- character matters!"
Then here's Harriet Miers. Not a long list of FLASHY accomplishments, endorsements mixed with denunciations. But an almost universally, overwhelmingly attested golden character.
And what are a bunch of FReepers saying?
"Character doesn't count!"
Dan
"Character doesn't count!"
So much is being said, isn't it? I read the conservative pundits charges of Miers mediocrity and wonder what it says of their ability to judge or even value, judicial temperament? I wonder what it says of those who gleefully post these thoughts not even recognizing that they have no standing in the author's world. I wonder what is says of the Senators who are lukewarm in their reactions? These are the same ones who failed to mount any effective campaign as nominee after nominee were filibustered. And finally I wonder about all of the constitutional experts here who are so insulted by the President's "trust me." Do they really expect any of us to believe that they carefully studied Luttig, Brown, Owens, etc. body of writings and opinions and independently judged their fitness? Or did they rely on the Coulter's, Kristol's and the rest "trust me?"
The only one I don't wonder about is the President. He is a man of his word and a man of loyalty...he knows what he campaigned on and what he promised.