[Cboldt]

My biggest surprise is that she did not fit the mold that I thought the nominee would fit

I'm curious. Describe if you will, what you anticipated the pick mught be. Not by name, but the qualities that you expected to see in the nominee.

[Loyal Buckeye]

A Roberts clone. Understand, I'm just saying I'm surprised and not being negative about Meirs.

[nicmarlo]

Describe if you will, what you anticipated the pick mught be. Not by name, but the qualities that you expected to see in the nominee.

You might find this thread interesting: Defending The Indefensible

In their unseemly eagerness to assure Miers's conservative detractors that she will reach the "right" results, her advocates betray complete incomprehension of this: Thoughtful conservatives' highest aim is not to achieve this or that particular outcome concerning this or that controversy. Rather, their aim for the Supreme Court is to replace semi-legislative reasoning with genuine constitutional reasoning about the Constitution's meaning as derived from close consideration of its text and structure. Such conservatives understand that how you get to a result is as important as the result. Indeed, in an important sense, the path that the Supreme Court takes to the result often is the result.