And this is not about "votes."
First of all, even if Miers is a firm anti-Roe vote that execrable, ill-conceived decision will remain intact, since the majority of the Court will still be irrevocably committed to preserving Roe.
Secondly, even if there were a majority to reverse Roe, it would not matter, if there were not a correspondingly legally sound basis for its reversal.
Whatever victory you will have achieved will be ephemeral, and only last as long as those jurists are on the Court, the tortured constitutional interpretation that led to Roe arising-de novo-once a more liberal president was in power.
Our current lamentable jurisprudence with regard to the Constitution did not manifest itself spontaneously.
There was a concerted effort-undertaken with malice of forethought-by radical legal scholars to pervert the original intent of this nation's bedrock legal document.
This is an endeavor that has been sculpted over the course of four decades, which has led to an imposing-but intellectually bankrupt-edifice that will be incredibly difficult to disassemble.
In order to reshape the Court you need a keen intellect, a cool temperament, and an unstinting courage that God only endows a chosen few with.
Harriet Miers is not equipped to fulfill the mission she's been tasked with.
I agree with you here in part. But the keen intellect need not be on constitutional issues. It needs to be on small group management. It needs to be a keen intellect based on management of human resources. This court operates like a city council, except it's members are there for life. It is aboslutely critical that we nominate people who will vote the way we want them to. (however that happens to be). That's the only real qualification for this court. When you have a body that consists of 9 votes, your priority is to get 5 votes. This idea that we're going to nominate these intellectual giants who are going to sway the court and all that is just wishful dreaming.
It is an ongoing concerted effort, with success made assured by dumbing down the electorate and feeding it propaganda, bread and circuses.