[auggy]

When Bush has to get Cheney to sell his nominee, it doesn't look good. Not good at all.

[Allen H]

Another thing, most people here don't know what it was like in Texas years ago. I've lived in Texas for over 30 years. In the 80s, Texas was still ruled by the democrats, and it would still be that way if not for the conservative movement started by Reagan, and Miers was a conservative democrat when she was a democrat, so was Governor Perry, and so was President Reagan, and so were a LOT of other Republicans today who were conservative democrats back in the day. Back when Miers was a democrat that's basically all there was in Texas. There were conservative democratsm, who are today conservative Republicans because the party left them, and there were democrats who are today liberal democrats. That's reality. Miers was a conservative democrat who is now a conservative Republican who has been with Bush for over a decade, was instrumental in picking Luddig, and Pryor, and Owens, and other good conservative judges.

People need to look at their big reason for being scared about this. They're scared about this because of kennedy and souter. Well kennedy was picked because known hard conservative Sonunu was defeated. souter was picked because hard conservative Bork was defeated. That's 0-2. If Luddig, Pryor and Owens are good enough, then the woman who was pivotal in picking them, and who didn't think Roberts was conservative enough should be good enough. It's that simple.