I do agree that the Supreme Court has and can have profound impacts to our society. What is shocking to me is the vehemence of many conservatives opposing her. I DO trust GW on THIS but it is not a blind trust. The little that has been squeezed out on her potential leanings since her announcement has been pro-life and she certainly is NOT a revisionist. Can conservatives disagree? Absolutely! Should they eat their own? That is what I see happening. That too, can have long term impacts on our ability to shape the future. There are darker clouds ahead than whether someones pet conservative judge is recommended to SCOTUS. That is my opinion and you are free to disagree with it, as is inquest.
As far as I know, there have been no public arguments made by her that push a pro-life view. All we have are some boxes checked off on a questionnaire put out by a pro-life group when she was running for Dallas City Council. Only a year earlier, she was donating to the Democrats. So stack this up against the public positions she has taken, such as
-identifying the root causes of crime as things like poverty and "low self-esteem", without mentioning lack of discipline, the entitlement mentality, the debasement of the culture, etc. (Source),
- the view that lawyers have a bad rap only because of public ignorance, not because of, say, the fact that they've rendered the laws unintelligible to the regular citizen (a concern of vital importance when considering her for a spot on the court which has been notorious for doing that to the Constitution)*,
- her recently unearthed opinion about the "pay gap" myth,
- and her efforts at SMU to start a "women's studies" (read: feminist indoctrination) curriculum that featured such luminaries as Gloria Steinem and Patricia Schroeder (Source),
-and her comments that the Federalist Society was too "political" an organization for her to be involved in, but had no problem being involved with the Democratic (as in, Democratic Party) Progressive Voters League (Source)
All these things tend to point in an uncomfortably left-wing direction.
(* to see the piece that I'm referring to in the second-listed item above, click here, then go to the third paragraph down in the yellow inset, where you can click to see her opinions in the Bar Journal, then go to the opinion from January '93)