No one-least of all from our side-is attempting to discredit her character, or implying that she is some satanic figure that will do irreversible damage to the Constitution.
In fact, I haven't seen one major conservative commentator who hasn't complimented her service, or hasn't acknowledged her intelligence.
However, I don't see why we should be preemptively silenced into accepting what appears to most people to be a very poor choice.
I have seen so many articles, criticizing Meirs for being a closet liberal, starting with the reports about the donation to Al Gore, and ending yesterday with the article about her sponsoring some women's career seminar (claiming that she is really a closet radical feminist). Everyone neglects the fact that it was Meirs who helped select all the candidates that conservatives would have rather seen nominated. The fact is that the conservatives just don't have the power that we would like to think that we have, to get those hard line conservatives on the court.