This entire process is perfectly demonstrative of why the president should not be extended trust here. Confirmed or not, there is absolutely no winning in this fight for Miers. It's shocking to me, that they do not seem to realize this and are gearing up to fight back. It's just a question of how much you lose and under what circumstances.
Picking an avoidable fight with your strongest (and frankly only) supporters at a time when you need to be consolidating their support, is a perfect demonstration of Bush's wildly illogical political judgement lately. How can you say that after this spectacularly incorrect assessment of what we will acquiesce with, that Bush even has a clue at this point what we are expecting from her votes? I don't know what's gotten into the man. This is a slow hemoraging political suicide, waged by a party leader on his own party, when he's surrounded on all sides by emboldened and hostile external enemies. It's nuts.
Put it all on the line. Let all her opponents destroy themselves and everything they lied to us about supporting.
The RNC foot soldier army will be badly wounded by this debacle. Many who campaigned door to door in the "get out the vote" effort are not likely to forgive the party for allowing this nomination to be confirmed. Sure, they'll still vote Republican, but without the effort to get others to the polls, the RNC will be in big trouble.