indeed, the better strategy would have been to nominate a "2nd tier" conservative - Edith Jones, Batchelder - not one of the "controversial" picks like Owens, Luttig, Brown, etc. Let the RINO gang vote one of them down. Use the forum to expose the RINOs, let's see McCain vote an otherwise qualified person down strictly over abortion and then come back in 2008 and tell people he is pro-life.
Bush could then have come back with Miers after the first choice was rejected. at least, had he done this, we could have exposed these people and gotten them on the record.
And I still want to know why, if Specter is supposedly adamant about not voting for someone who will toss Roe - why is he supporting Miers? what does Spector know about Miers on this issue that allows him to vote for her?
"And I still want to know why, if Specter is supposedly adamant about not voting for someone who will toss Roe - why is he supporting Miers? what does Spector know about Miers on this issue that allows him to vote for her?"
No paper trail. It's all politics. What a surprise!