Please explain how the withdrawel of a woman with very little track record is a win for the democrats? LOL, they've been Harriet's most ardent supporters during this process. Harry Reed's first pronouncements sounded as if he'd nominated her.
Putting another Souter on the court would have been a win for the Democrats! We have no way of knowing Miers wouldn't have morphed into one.
Conservatism won. Miers may have turned out to be a good conservative. I don't think so. The next nomination should have a track record, and should be a known quantity before any of us sign on.
One unknown quantity lost, is NOT a win for the democrats.
Because just like everything else, the dems frame the issues. Compliments of the GOP.
I won't have to do that. Watch what happens to the next nominee. Watch what 'Rat Senators and the Leftist press say. Watch the moderate Republican Senators refuse to back the President's nominee with the "nucular" option. The President has been gravely weakened (partly on him, partly on the over-the-top reaction from the likes of Maureen Coulter and others) and that makes it more difficult to get a nominee confirmed.