Your words. Guess I misconstrued them. Oh well.
I haven't, I have chosen to ignore it for the sake of getting Alito on the court.
Oh. Okay.
I do not believe that Miers opponents were simply "urging" him to withdraw the nomination, but instead they were attempting to force the withdrawal through political pressure that threatened the presidency and control of congress if they did not get their way.
A number of individuals voiced opposition. That's part of the political process. But that exercise, which resulted in the President exercizing HIS prerogative to withdraw a nomination, is clearly different from the Senate refusing to dispose of a nomination that the President chooses to press ahead with.
You are free to see the two events as "the same" to the extent it paints conservatives as hypocrits. But in doing so, you open yourself up to being tared with the same charge, certainly in the eyes of the DEMs and liberals who oppose the Alito nomination. You are adopting their argument against this nominee.
To do so undermines the President and the GOP on this nomination. Holding that position is destructive to the cause of seating a strict constructionist via a transparent political process.