[NavVet]

True enough on Gore, but her comments about the Federalist Society and the NAACP should still be applicable today, since those organizations haven't changed.

[The Red Zone]

Harriet has learned much more about the world than she was aware of when the 1980s became the 1990s. It's the fish phenomenon: the last thing a fish notices about its environment is water. Until it is plucked out...

[randita]

but her comments about the Federalist Society and the NAACP should still be applicable today, since those organizations haven't changed.

Yes, they have. In 1988, the Federalist Society was in its infant stages and consisted of a small group of Texas politicos. Today it has evolved into a conservative/libertarian think tank -- much different. The NAACP used to be focussed on uplifting black people mainly through education, now its just an extension of the Democrat Party and is focussed on the defeat and demonization of Republicans and the expansion of the government plantation.

Miers comments in 1988 and today on those organizations make perfect sense.

[GarySpFc]

True enough on Gore, but her comments about the Federalist Society and the NAACP should still be applicable today, since those organizations haven't changed.

The question of legal philosophy. The stronghold of conservative lawyers is the Federalist Society--of which Miers is not a member, but many conservative lawyers aren't; Hugh Hewitt, for example. Miers has been a speaker before the Federalist Society, and has the strong support of Federalist Society executive director Leonard Leo:

He spoke as one who has known and worked with her for well over a decade, who has played host to her when she has been a Federalist Society speaker, and -- perhaps most significant -- who joined her in a battle to get the American Bar Association to rescind its resolution endorsing Roe v. Wade , the decision establishing a right to abortion.

The first thing Leo said was that Miers's statement accepting the nomination from Bush was significant to him. "It is the responsibility of every generation to be true to the Founders' vision of the proper role of courts in our society . . . and to help ensure that the courts meet their obligations to strictly apply the laws and the Constitution," she said. "When she talked about 'the Founders' vision' and used the word 'strictly,' " Leo said, "I thought, 'Robert Bork,' " Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court pick, who was rejected by the Senate after a bitter fight. "She didn't have to go there. She could simply have said, 'Judges should not legislate from the bench.' But she chose those words."

I asked if he was surprised that she did -- or whether it was consistent with what he knew of her judicial philosophy. He replied: "I'm not surprised that's what she believes. I'm surprised her handlers let her say it."

http://presidentaristotle.blogspot.com/2005/10/case-for-miers-when-things-look-blurry.html

[USPatriette]

"her comments about the Federalist Society and the NAACP should still be applicable today, since those organizations haven't changed."

But the public perception of them has changed substantially, I would argue.