[ez]

Surely you're not saying that Senate confirmation proves someone will be a good Justice?

No, we'll see when the final vote is taken whose ends you serve with your demands for intellectual purity...damn the political calculations.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I don't believe W's choice of Miers had much to do with political calculation. I think it was more a matter of rewarding an old loyalist, and expressing W's pique at the way right shot down the Gonzales trial balloon.

If keen political calculation were at the heart of W's pick of Miers, why didn't the WH foresee the firestorm of conservative opposition?

[Cboldt]

... we'll see when the final vote is taken whose ends you serve with your demands for intellectual purity...

A modicum of intellectual honesty would do. Phiosophical purity can't be debated when one side resorts to tricks that amount to sophistry, or other forms of intellectual dishonesty.