Speaking of choices, I don't think the Miers pick was bad. I don't think it was good. It was just a choice. Others disagreed with that choice. She withdrew. The President made another choice. Instead of Judge Alito, he could have chosen someone equally as disturbing to those whose fondest wish is to be perpetually disturbed. I remember Coulter braying that GWB would pick Attorney General Gonzalez just to be vindictive, and I remember many people here followed right along where she led. Like you, when his 2nd pick was an excellent one, they failed to give credit where credit is due.
You are adamant that the Miers choice was a mistake. However, you apparently don't think people deserve credit for correcting their mistakes. Do you treat your loved ones that way? One mistake and boom! They are on your crap list forever.
As for Alito, I don't know if it was an excellent pick, just as I don't know if Roberts was an excellent pick. It's too soon to tell; that's just the way it is. I do know that both Roberts and Alito are qualified for the job, whereas Miers wasn't even in the ballpark.
Does Bill Clinton deserve credit for breaking off his affair with Lewinsky? Of course he doesn't. Why? Because he did it because he had no choice. As a simple matter of fact, Miers WITHDREW her nomination. We don't even know for a fact that Bush had anything to do with it. For all we know, he'd have kept on going, straight into a buzzsaw. So no, he doesn't get credit for it. We dodged a bullet, no thanks to the bush bots.