Very reasonable viewpoint. However, there is no public record of a judicial philosopohy. All we get are faith based initiatives and disturbing policy clues: warm and fuzzy support for Texas Bar Association quotas, SMU womens studies programs, dissing the Ferderalist Society as partisan and the NAACP as peachy keen. These small fragments may not truly represent Miers views but that's all we got.
Lesson to be learned: If you nominate a stealth candidate and others will paint the picture.
Still doesn't justify throwing her under the bus, no matter what side of the argument you might stand on. It also doesn't justify the "about face" so-called Conservatives have taken as of late, after castigating the Democrats for over a year for stifling the process for casting ones aside known quality candidates through a filibuster, arguing the same argument I am arguing for giving Miers a fair up or down vote alongside a hearing.