I can't believe you're still beating this dead horse nearly a year later.
Can't you just admit you were wrong about Miers and conservatives were right to demand a verifiable conservative for the position? Is it that difficult?
It really isn't that hard - I speak from experience. Hell, I'm wrong all the time (just ask my wife), and I don't have a problem admitting it when I am ...
...otherwise she'll really let me have it! :-)
Miers never got the chance, so you will never know that I was right at the time.
BTW, I'm not beating the horse. I responded to a question, and frankly, I'd like to forget it, but the split in the base was seriously widened by the Miers issue, and it has continued since.
The Rats are taking advantage of it, and I would too, if I were them.
The reason it is connected is that it is part of the process that has buggered the party base. Other than that, it is irrelevant.
No one's position is verifiable before they assume a seat on the SC. Meirs was when the talking heads and a lot of shortsighted conservatives decided you could not trust GWB.
That might haunt the conservative movement for years.
We'll never know if you were right because Miers never got a chance to prove herself worthy of the job in front of the Senate panel because conservatives like you spent every day harpooning her nomination by making fun of her by calling her such names as "the cleaning lady". You aren't entitled to the moral high ground for that shameful behavior.