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Brown was a hack. He never accomplished a damn thing in any position he ever held. As a lawyer, he was a washout--when his firm downsized he was the first to go. As head of the Horse Assn he got himself mired in litigation. He relied entirely on contacts for his entire career.
While I haven't a clue as to what Miers' position is on the important issues that will come before the SCOTUS or much of anything else about her, and while I'm not at all optimistic that she'll be "moderate" as a justice, isn't comparable to Brown and claiming that she is gives her defenders an easy time of rebutting us. She is an accomplished attorney of more than 30 years experience who was the first woman hired by her firm, first woman to head the Texas Bar, became the managing partner of a firm of more than 400 lawyers, has been named as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in the country. Did she get her appointment to the SCOTUS because she was tight with Chimpy? Of course. But that doesn't equate her with Brown anymore than it equates Abe Fortas or Byron White (who got their nominations to the SCOTUS from LBJ and JFK because of their being tight with those Presidents) with Brown.
Making claims that allow the other side to emphasize her record of achievement hardly helps our case.
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