And that's the bottom line. Maybe W felt like he could trust Miers more than he could trust the writings of someone he didn't know? (and maybe W is just lying to us)... I don't know. But by all practical appearances, he's nominated a crony who he really believes will vote the way he wants them to. That's pretty much what we need in my mind.
That may be true, but if it is, it shows that Bush isn't thinking clearly.
You go by a just a person's writings, but their judicial track record. What a person writes or says is just their thoughts of the moment - how a person has ruled in actual cases demonstrates their judicial philosophy. There is no way to hide from that.