msnimje wrote: "What is really bothering me more and more is the Administration pushing her history with the ABA as her most impressive accomplishments."
I agree. It tells me Bush really doesn't understand conservatism. His selling points aren't winning us over, and they are actually making many of us more worried.
Hey, I think it's great she's a professing Christian. No doubt she's a competent trial lawyer, too. Now tell me how this proves she'll be a strict Constitutionalist.
There are only two qualifications to be a strict Constituionalist:
1 - a commitment to rule on only what is clearly written in the Constitution, and
2 - the strength of character to not get tempted to breathe more meaning into the Constutition when your person views may compell you to do such.
Lots of people profess to be Constitutionalists. Miers has said she will be one. But will she have the character to hold to those views at all costs?
Under that test, Scalia failed #2 in Gonzales. Clarence Thomas is the only one who consistently resists temptation that I can see. So screw everything else. I don't care if Miers had half the qualifications she currently holds. I want to see if she shows the strength of character, and humility, to hold her commitment.
It is like a nightmare. I just got off the phone with my brother who is the smartest person I know, a calm and rational person and a Conservative Republican. He said, "George W. Bush is the most liberal Republican President we have ever had."
I suspect he was speaking fiscally since he (my brother) is the CFO of a fortune 500 company but he is also an astute observer of politics.
Another thing about her qualifications, she has only been White House Counsel for 8 months.