She obviously isn't the most qualified choice. The most qualified choice would be beheaded by the Democrats the minute he or she was nominated.

From Jerry Pournelle:

A letter from a reader:

Jerry,

"Egregious" Frum may or may not be, but he's got some non-egregious company in his questioning the Miers appointment. Peggy Noonan, certainly, and Alexander Hamilton, arguably:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007363

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007354

As for whether the appointment's inevitable: only if the Senate treats it that way, which I agree is certainly probable, but ought not to be a robotic given.

--Erich Schwarz

I give considerable attention to Miss Noonan's views. Hamilton is perhaps not so relevant; we have a lot of experience with justices who have not previously been judges, including Earl Warren who heard his first case as Chief Justice (it was argued by Robert Kennedy who made his first appearance in a courtroom as Solicitor General).

The situation was created by the Bork hearings: it became clear that stealth candidates were the only possible candidates in the poisonous atmosphere of the decayed republic. The results are not good, but then that was more than predictable. What do you suppose would happen if Bush nominated a strong judicial "Original Intent" conservative with a long bench record? He would have to find someone who never made a wrong decision, has never been reversed on appeal, and whose decisions have been not only sound but unassailable: a person who never lived.

Once the waters are poisoned, the kinds of creatures who can swim in them change.

We have sown the wind. The Bork hearings were the sowing; now we reap.