I agree. Everyone saying Miers was an unknown, IMHO, that wasn't a bad thing. We could get a conservative unknown through (and let me say a conservative unknown who Bush said was an originalist, I don't care if she was pro this or anti that in the past, Bush said she is now an originalist), we can't get a KNOWN conservative through, mainly because of the RINOs in Congress.
Conservatives did the dirty work that we should have forced the Dems to do. We should have made them question Miers, call James Dobson as a witness, etc. Instead, the "pie in the sky" conservatives believe that JRB or Luttig can make it through the nomination process...maybe we should change the name of that faction of the party to the Cleopatra coalition.
As much as I would like them to make it thru, I doubt they will. We cut our own noses off to spite our face.