[DallasMike]

If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

That may be so, but would Scalia, Rehnquist, or Thomas had been on the top of anyone's list if they had not had advocates in the administrations that named them to the court.

I don't think that too many people around here are going to be upset with Miers' opinions, so why does everyone have their panties in a wad? Bush can't trust the Republican Senate leadership to employ the nuclear option and stop the Democrats' filibuster tactics so he was forced to push through another stealth candidate.

 

       

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[Rodney King]

That may be so, but would Scalia, Rehnquist, or Thomas had been on the top of anyone's list if they had not had advocates in the administrations that named them to the court.

Scalia would have been, don't know about the other two.

[Paladin2b]

That may be so, but would Scalia, Rehnquist, or Thomas had been on the top of anyone's list if they had not had advocates in the administrations that named them to the court.

Abso-friggin-lutely.

Scalia would have been on any conservative's short list since the Carter Administration, he was a rising star and intellectual heavyweight from the get-go.

Rehnquist is a special case; remember that Nixon's two previous nominees for that seat had been rejected (and I would suggest that the one rejected for "mediocrity"--Harold Carswell--had a record that made him look like Oliver Wendell Holmes next to Miers. I think you'd be seeing him as a natural pick anytime from 1974 on by a GOP president.

Thomas was also a fast-riser; I know that people in the conservative movement were saying to keep an eye on him for SCOTUS as far back as the mid-80s.

[jess35]

I don't think that too many people around here are going to be upset with Miers' opinions, so why does everyone have their panties in a wad?

#1. They wanted a knock down drag out battle. It's not about Miers, it's about the smackdown they wanted to deliver.

#2. There are some people who have bought into the liberal spin. They believe you must have experience as a judge and an impressive law school degree before you can even begin to understand the meaning of the simple words in the Constitution. I guess they don't realize THEY are part of the problem and Miers just might be part of the solution.