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Are you beginning to see the problem?

No - I don't.

Whether or not a good case can be made for Miers is only of transient concern, good for a couple months of lengthy threads on FR.

Whether or not Miers is a solid vote on the Court for the Constitution will be of serious impact for decades.

The past record shows that we all, including some of the brightest pundits amongst us, have poor track records at predicting the force that a Judge will become.

I ask that Bush pick someone that he knows, as certainly as he can know, will be a force for the proper rule of the law and courts, as described in the Constitution.

I could give a 'rats patooie (sp?) whether it is someone I have ever heard of or can make any case for or against.

This is Bush's call, and I have no way yet to know if he got it right or now. I can do nothing but watch and wait, and quit posting to these silly threads <grin>.

I can see enough of Miers to believe it is possible that Bush got it right. Only if I were certain that Miers was a leftist, another Ginsberg incarnate, would I be at the fence of the White House, pitch fork in hand.

Whether or not a good case can be made for Miers is only of transient concern

I agree with you in the sense that I could care less about how easy it is to wrap her in a PR package. Incidentally, thank you for a cogent response.I don't have anything against Miers and I'm willing to admit that she may turn out to be a fine Justice. Outside of trust in Bush, I can't see a single thing in her resume, her track record, or any past action that she has ever taken that is known by the general public that gives me any remote reason to believe that she will act as an originalist on the bench.

I'm willing to admit that I can't find a single problem with any other Bush judicial pick.

I like and admire Bush and he's surrounded himself with great people with very few exceptions. But he has a border and immigration policy that is less than ideal and he has yet to veto excessive spending and has even demanded some with the prescription drug program. His judgment is not perfect. I am more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but when I find out "the nominee had to be a woman," when reasonable questions about her qualifications are met with leftist style attacks instead of reasoned arguments, and when two days of criticism is enough to launch levels of rhetoric at his supporters that have been kept in check for 6 years when it comes to the opposition, I am just not left with the warm and fuzzies. I want to believe Miers is not a bad choice, I just can't find an intellectually honest reason to believe it.