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Some of the denigrators never were Bush supporters. A few of the names I recognize as having been Buchananites or other third party types.

A certain segment of conservatives have a visceral dislike of the President. Nothing he does or doesn't do will change that. You can see it in the comments they make; it isn't that they are just critical of the nomination, but that they use it to hang every grudge they carry against him around his neck.

I'm not surprised at those here on FR who are acting in such a way. The columnists, who are supposedly smarter politically, are the ones I don't get. I am led to the conclusion that some people care more about winning this "fight" than in the long-term damage their public rants do.

However, only another 10 days or so until the hearings. I'm hoping Ms. Miers will either prove to be way better than the critics, or makes an early error and withdraws.

Of course, then we will have the problem of a different nominee. I wonder if ANYONE would be foolish enough to leave a confirmed judgeship for life and put themselves in front of this bunch. All the detractors now might be surprised at who a different nominee would be.

Nothing he does or doesn't do will change that.

Now now. If he were to close the border and have ICE start rounding up illegals in the Home Depot parking lots, that would go a long way towards shutting me up.

It is not a "viscaerl dislike" of Bush. It is that we have shut up and swallowed when we wanted to spit over so many issues that many of us are just sick of being his Bitch. No more. I for one, am sweeping up what is left of my principles and taking them home. Maybe through '08. Depends on who the Repubs nominate.

Yeah, very well said. I'm trying to imagine this same process with yet another nominee after Miers (either to replace if that's what transpires or to follow, anticipating more vacancies while Bush is in office).

I do say, in retrospect, that Republicans were far more accepting of a President's privilege of nominating to the S.C. than are the Democrats, now in opposite fashion. I doubt at this point that any nominee by Bush will ever escape being Mier'd.

And, like I wrote and as you did, too, yes, the conservative media has shown itself to be startlingly cruel about Miers, and Bush. A shocker.

I have complaints but for most of us voters, Bush was a vast improvement over Gore and/or Kerry. I can barely imagine the horrors that both would have resulted.

We do need a rising star among conservatives at this point. Think it will have to be someone apart from the Bush Administration.