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The President knows her very well. He thinks she is the best choice for the Supreme Court. A perusal of her resume shows that she is very well qualified. She has had a very impressive career. One does not become the President of the Texas Bar Association without having lots on the ball. By the same token, one does not become the President's personal lawyer without having lots on the ball.

All those wonderfully intelligent lawyers with those wonderfully impressive resumes and yet it is good old George Bush, the guy with the average grades and average SAT scores, who gets to select a Roberts or a Miers or not. George Bush is the President of the United States. He ran for office. He won the elections. To the victor belongs the spoils. He gets to make the selection. History will decide if he chose wisely or not, but for now, the President will rightly ignore the ankle biters and second guessers.

You do not have to be a great lawyer to be elected President of a state bar ass'n. In fact, it's not a stellar recommendation at all.

Some of those wonderfully intelligent lawyers include people like JRB, Luttig, Alito, etc. He promised to pick well qualified judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. He has chosen someone who is woefully unqualified when there is a field of exceptional jurists to choose from. You're just trying to put the best face on a bad decision.