OK. Tell me three things you have learned about Harriet Miers in the last two weeks that make her unqualified.
You seem to think you're quite clever by insisting for hard evidence to "make her unqualified." But of course you're challenge is entirely beside the point. Due to a lifetime obsession with hiding her real beliefs, no one is armed with hard evidence about her positions on matters of public import, not even, I would suggest, the president.
But the inferential evidence (e.g, her dissing of the Federalist Society), the only evidence of this mediocre candidate available, all points to the LEFT, not the right. She gauged which way the wind was blowing in Texas and suddenly became a "conservative" only when her career depended on it, not before. She has never taken a public stand on principal, a shocking indication of her go-along-to-get-along character, but, and this in recent years, she has been influential behind the scenes in setting up programs which honored the likes of Gloria Steinhem.
I first heard of this woman on Sept 29th. I'm sure you never heard of her before that either. But it's not only the the rank-and-file who've never heard of her, outside her law firm almost no one in her profession had heard of her before that either! She is an utter mediocrity who would never had been thought of by anyone to be a Supreme Court Justice had she not been Laura Bush's pal. And that's just wrong. Those who compare her to Sandra Day O'Connor don't know what they're talking about. O'Connor was first in her class at Stanford, a successful politician, a former holder of public office and a respected associate of an already sitting Justice when she was nominated by Reagan. Her name had been on the list for years. NOBODY --- except Laura Bush --- ever had Miers on any list even for a Federal judgeship, let alone for the most important judicial panel in the country.
Brownback has said it well: "Harriet Miers doesn't have that track record and doesn't seem to be well-formed in her judicial philosophy, having never being on the bench.
"And over a period of time - and this is the second point of what is going on - [justices] that have been appointed by a Republican president have tended to veer to the left over a period of time if they are not well formed in their judicial philosophy."
Miers is too great risk. This miserable nomination must be withdrawn.