“Yes, W nominated his personal lawyer Hariet Miers, a women so spectacularly unqualified that it was the GOP that forced him to pull back the nomination...”
She would have been better than Roberts.
We probably would have gotten Roberts either way once there were two openings at once. Instead Bush was forced to go to his third choice and we got Alito. So instead of Bush crony Miers and John Roberts we got Sam Alito and John Roberts.