I would say that in that poll roughly a third of Freepers oppose her, a third support her, and a third aren't sure. But the poll was put up fairly early in the game. I don't know how many people have changed their minds--certainly not the most vociferous among us, I'm afraid, but it may be that some of the quieter types have.
The support for Roberts was far more positive. A few people expressed doubts, but almost everyone came around in fairly short order. Nothing like this.
The whole business has been very unpleasant. I usually support Bush. I don't usually take extreme positions. I believe that politics is the art of the possible. I don't see any probable good outcome in opposing Miers, because I doubt that Bush will withdraw her no matter how bad it gets. But I am more and more convinced, regretably, that when he selected her he made a terrible mistake: a mistake for Bush, for the conservative cause, for the campaign to take back the Supreme Court, and even as a political tactic. It may have destroyed any hope of making any further conservative nominations to the courts. It may have undercut Bush's power to do anything constructive in his remaining three years in other areas, such as the War on Terror.
Because this appointment is so damaging, I have no choice but to speak out against it, in the faint hope that it will be reversed and that Bush will recover his political momentum.
Well said.