[Ol' Sparky]

Bush is the one that put Alberto Gonzales on the Texas Supreme Court.

Now that he is no longer up for election or reelection, it's amazing how we're not getting the same kind of judges for the Supreme Court that we were getting for the circuit courts.

BTW, there is no President in my lifetime that I trusted or respected more than Ronald Reagan. He was a man of tremendous principle. Yet, the stealth strategy brought us Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy. Compare that to the Clinton strategy of finding known quantities and appointing them.

[wagglebee]

IMO, there is a different criteria for state supreme court justices (which in most if not all states are NOT lifetime appointments) and federal judges (which are). Additionally, the Constitutional issues do not come into play as much at the state level.

Reagan was the greatest president we will probably ever see, and he made two bad decisions by taking "unknown" quantities. However, the fact that Miers is an unknown quantity to almost everyone else, does not mean she is an unknown quantity to Bush.