Something just occured to me. What if the plan was to put up a weak nominee in order to lower expectations. Roberts was a damn tough act to follow, but Miers is not.
While it would be interesting to think it was all "strategery", I don't really think so. President Bush has been right on almost everything he did and decided, within the possible circumstances. He pulled a boner on this one -- one per 8 years is allowed, as long as he corrects it, as he is doing with this one.
If he goes back to being "the cowboy" we love, the president who leads us in the War on Terror, and get tough with the Dems and defecting RINOs, forget compromise, we need to beat them, then "the best is yet to come".