The constitution does not lay out prerequisite qualifications to SC justice. The founders left it open to even the common American. The constitution is not hard to understand. It is the elitist leftist who have complicated things.
As to whether she would have been nominated if she hadn't been Bush's personal attorney, well duh...how else would he have gotten the insights as to her abilities? I can't know what was in Bush's mind and neither can you. I do know that all of the judges he has nominated up to now have been unquestionably good and qualified.
Bush has a demonstrated track record on his judgeship appointments, and now many here are ready to lynch him for one they don't understand. And if ya'll want to go around pissed off because he didn't consult you and take your suggestions...sheesh, what a miserable life.
I would have chosen JRB, but I'm not going grab on to unfounded assumptions about cronyism and the like. I will not go about trashing her nomination. I want to wait until I hear her in the confirmation hearings before I make up my own mind. I would like to hear more evidence particularly from her mouth.
"And if ya'll want to go around pissed off because he didn't consult you and take your suggestions"
How about the people who go around 'pissed off' that people actually dare question the miers pick?
I don't expect to hear much from her mouth. These days the less you have said and the less you have written the better. Even GWB says he has not asked her about Roe v Wade. It all comes down to
"Trust Me" (or, I trust Bush/Dobson/ACLJ/fill in the blank)";
"But she's an Evangelical Christian!"
"She used to be a Dim, but she's changed",
"Prove to me she is NOT conservative".
Maybe ok for an appeals court, but my $.02 says it is a major league dice roll for the SCOTUS. I'm disappointed, but I really do hope she is all you guys are saying she is. We've been working and waiting for this for a long time.