For those who just love to trash/spin by taking a person's sentences out of context and further preventing them the opportunity to explain ....here's an update..
Oct 27th 2005
"I share your commitment to appointing judges with a conservative judicial philosophy, and I look forward to continuing to support your efforts to provide the American people judges who will interpret the law, not make it. I am most grateful for the opportunity to have served your Administration and this country."
Most respectfully,
Harriet Ellan Miers
You're basing your views of Miers' belief on a resignation letter that was probably written for her. I'm basing mine on her speeches and writings over a period of decades when she was actually speaking and writing for herself.
"I share your commitment to appointing judges with a conservative judicial philosophy"
"To further that commitment, I am unable to support a person such as myself as nominee to the Supreme Court."
I'll have to disagree with you on this one. Miers knew too much about her personal and professional dealings with W. The Senate Dems, Reid in particular, were playiing nice because they wanted to get her into a hearing, where they planned to dredge up things like the Texas lottery info, and possibly even W's national guard info. The moonbat libs wanted this one bad. It's a good thing she withdrew, because while she could have cited attorney client privelege and separation of powers to avoid those questions, it would have played very badly in the MSM.
And the unreasonable demand for info by the Senate was the specific reason she cited for withdrawal.
But beyond that, we need to fight this one out with a proud, strong conservative. All this 'compassionate conservative' garbage has outlived it's usefulness, not to mention the 'new tone'.