Part of the "process" is the right to withdraw a name from consideration. President Bush didn't want to hand over White House files to back up this nomination. That was his right - and a legitimate part of the process.
That sounds like a spin to me. Please, give me more intelligence than that. He had a gun to his head over her. She saw how she was being ripped apart by conservatives and liberals alike. Nothing, absolutely nothing she could have said and done would have separated the lions from their meat. She deserved the right to be heard.
But, some will take solace, Ted Kennedy agrees with many here.