No, she did not trash her. She is just being stupid and imagining she was elected to some office. She has lost her credibility for nothing. Stupidity in action.
I think that's a bit unfair. She's "being stupid" for telling Harriet Miers that she (Melanie Morgan) thinks (as one conservative woman to another) that the best thing to do is for Miers to withdraw her nomination?
I don't think that's stupid at all.
You say that Melanie was, "and imagining she was elected to some office" - but again that's awfully unfair. If Melanie were saying she was going to vote against her nomination in the U.S. Senate I'd see your point. Melanie seems to recognize she has no vote, and thus can only call on Miers to do the decent thing... the right thing... and pull herself out to end this ugly ugly fight within our own ranks when such a fight is wholly unnecessary since there are SO MANY qualified, experienced, capable conservative women who could easily be nominated and receive nearly universal conservative support.