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.
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.That's my point. Analysis that states "GWB would get his 'known' conservative pick confirmed" has not fully accounted for the spinelessness of the GOP Senators. I'll take my chances on a nominee who's 'unknown' to 99.9% of DC but 'well known' to the one person who counts - GWB.
Your other comments are spot on, as well.