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Well!!! join the club, I have lost respect for all the "Hang Harriet" crowd before they know anything about her as well. How well do you know the nominee? Do you know for sure that Miers will be another Souter or will she be another Scalia?

I will confess: I do not know Ms. Miers very well, but that is the problem. From what I have been able to discern, she is David Souter in drag. There is plenty in her past to suggest that this is the case and nothing to suggest that she will be an originalist in the mold of a Scalia or Thomas. Since the hearings typically devolve into a bully pulpit for the Democrats, I can't imagine I will really learn much from them. I don't want to find out the hard way that she is a judicial activist.

The "Hang Harriet" gloss is a bit much. Those of us who are opposed to Ms. Miers are not giving her the type of treatment that originalist and conservative judges get from the likes of Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer. Instead, we are giving rational arguments that when it comes to evidence of the proper judicial philosophy, this nominee is severely wanting.

I have nothing against Ms. Miers personally, I just don't think she belongs on the Court (not when we have a Republican president and a Republican/RINO Senate).

"I guess Democratic senator Zell Miller might disagree with your protest. As I recall he did a pretty good job of telling us what it meant to be a conservative. Don't you agree?"

You are absolutely right, I'd forgotten about Zell Miller, I'd bet you can count on one hand the number of counterexamples to my assertion.

Jim

You wrote: ` "She changed her donations to Republican in the early 90s and hasn't donated to the Dems since." Miers supported Democrats into her 40s. 40s!!! I was only a Democrat from 5th to 8th grade. Anyone should know where they stand politically by the time they're 16 or so. '

Actually, I didn't begin to become a conservative until I was in my late 20's, but your point is well taken. If a person is in their 40's and still supporting Democratic candidates, it's pretty hard to believe that she is suddenly a rock-ribbed conservative (short of a dramatic life-changing event).

My main concern is her judicial philosophy: is she going to be an originalist, or a consensus builder as she is characterized by president of the Dallas Bar Association, Tim Mountz? Wasn't this the one of the main problems with Sandra Day O'Conner?