In hindsight, the Meirs nomination was a killing blow to Bush's administration. Conservatives lost all faith in him. We're grateful when he does something right, but now he's just another politician to many of us.
Which is ironic given that is what many people seemed to want in 2000 - a good Christian man with strong personal values who said what he meant and meant what he said and who could unite the country after the Clinton years. We got one and his approval rating is at 26%.