[vrwinger]

I am disappointed that so many people here are jumping on this woman and the President when they can't possibly know anything about her. Sure I wish Bush had put a "Scalia-Thomas" up. But there are tons of people just like them, who aren't even known to be like them. I wish people would be rational enough to see what this lady is like before they throw their hands up and give up. I'd like to have had a fight and put a hard conservative in the rats faces and make them fight, but that didn't happen. So right now, we can either whine and moan like a bunch of old ladies, or we can pray this woman is a real firm conservative, like everyone who knows her has come out and said she is, and support her. She appears to be significantly more conservative than o'conner is, and that's a big win right there.

I agree. I have been reading all of the posts this morning and two real-world issues are not being considered (by those who wanted an in-your-face nomination of a 'known' conservative):

1) The pick needs to be confirmed by a very squishy GOP Senate, and

2) The media will never allow a fair playing field for GWB to wage the battle everyone seems to be itching for.

I have to trust GWB on this one. He's known her for a long time.

[Allen H]

1) The pick needs to be confirmed by a very squishy GOP Senate, and

2) The media will never allow a fair playing field for GWB to wage the battle everyone seems to be itching for.

I have to trust GWB on this one. He's known her for a long time.

Definitely! I frankly do not think the Republican Senate majority has the b***s to really dig in and fight to confirm a pryor or Luddig known hard conservative. There are easily five Republican Senators who wouldn't have the spine to vote for her on the floor. Meek does not mean weak, and I have a lot of faith in the many people (Sekulo, Hecht, etc) who have come out today and backed Miers up. I will reserve total judgement till some time has passed. IF we had gotten a big fight over a Luddig or Pryor, we could well have been bitten in the butt by the milk toast RINOs in the Senate, and been forced to have another moderate like o'conner. Moderates who do not take Christian conservative principle seriously, do NOT attend a very conservative evangelical church for over a decade like Miers has done. She's proven her ideological character in that church, and you cannot be a genuine evangelical Christian and be a liberal judicially. The latter is defined by the prior. I am a ideological conservative Constitutional Republican because I am first an evangelical Christian. By all accounts, the same applies to Miers.