Bush's Miers choice shouldn't be the mystery it was, & now he's up a creek

Shouldn't it be obvious why Jackass picked Miers? AFAIC, he was trying to pick someone who he could sneak through the cracks that wouldn't offend either the whackjob conservatives or the more centrist moderate Republicans. He gambled that if no one knew what she stood for, then maybe no one would protest too much from within his own party. Man was he wrong. Right or left, people weren't going to let an unknown in, not even his own people.

Now I think he's royally fucked. He doesn't want to further irritate his neocon base, yet his ratings with the more centrist moderate Republicans are at an alltime low, so he's treading on thin ice with them, too. Whomever he picks, chances are good that one group is not going to be very happy with his NEXT choice either. The neocons won't be satisfied with anything less than a pure neocon choice, and the more moderate middle-of-the-road Repugs are looking for something just a little more center of far right.

This should be interesting. He claims on TV that he's going to come up with a nomination quickly. Yeah, right. I don't think he's gonna come up with a good choice as quick as he thinks without getting into the battle of his life. Hopefully he's going to alienate one group or another within his own party. Let the dissembling of the Repuke Party continue! Friggin assholes.

After all, John Roberts was an "X" factor as well -- and he blew through.

It's the fact that they could not prove her RW credentials beyond all doubt AND the fact that she didn't appear to be qualfied.

We're talking about a seat on the SC that could be the most pivotal in recent history, and it's vital that their background is a little more clear than what Miers' background was.

Never having sent on the bench, he had like zero track record.

With Miers I think it was the combo of murky ideology AND not being an expert in constitutional law.

answer at all. Roberts was so crafty that even Democrats couldn't come up with too many reasons to filibuster him. Miers was clearly out of her league.

There are two factors: Ideology, and qualification to do the job. Roberts was clearly qualified because he could answer their judicial questions. So despite his unclear ideological position, he passed. Miers, on the other hand, clearly screwed up her interviews with the Senators. I hear she couldn't even answer some very basic questions about judicial precedent.

Bush will pick someone that he wanted all along...someone like Owens or Brown. He cn't afford to piss of his fundie base.

It's gonna get interesting, folks.

The way I see it, there is no one out there who can possibly satisfy his neocon base and his moderate more centrist leaning Republicans (and ever-more dissatisfied followers I might add) at the same time. Democrats might get to watch this one from the sidelines again.

Now conservatives who might have settled for a medium conservative won't settle for anything less than a raving procrustean right wing crab. Moderates are already backing away from Bush and won't be too ready to vote for such a hard right extremist.

the Repuke Party, that is. Bush is a good divider, period.

The worst thing that could happen to Bush/neocons is to appoint someone to the Supreme Court and then have them overturn Roe v. Wade. The boogeyman would be gone, and there would start to be one issue voting--on the other side of this issue.