No, not really, he left open the possibility that Miers could work out well. His main point was that nominating her instead of someone like Brown was a missed opportunity to have a high profile public debate about what we stand for (presumably the founding traditions of America), which would also let everyone also know that the Dems are against those traditions. A missed opportunity for a home run, we settled for a base hit.
Disagree. I sat through the Senate floor debate over judicial nominees, and many of the speakers on our side were conspicuously absent. Why is that? They don't have the cajones to confront such little minds as Kennedy and Schumer? Kennedy and Schumer were running circles around the few Republicans who bothered to show up to make a floor presentation.
Continuing the baseball analogies; Many Republican Senators won't go to bat for this White House without making deals with the enemy. ("Cabal" Of 14 comes to mind). JRB was considered "outside the mainstream" by many on our side, and she was vetted by Miers.
Miers is capable of going to bat for herself and defending herself against any unforseen attacks from the left, are the majority of Republican Senators willing to do the same?
One more baseball quote that is pertinent as well... "There is no 'I' in 'TEAM'".
My analogy yesterday was a sac fly, but I think you are right, she is probably a base hit.