So, would we have been better off with Harriet Miers?

[Quixote1818]

Perhaps Dems cozied up to her too quickly and we ended up shooting ourselves in the foot.

Thoughts?

[Lyle]

1. We'd almost be better off with Castro! LoL n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. she was a joke. and was most likely anti-abortion too

atleast alito is a legitimate candidate

[kentuck]

3. How many of us suppported Harriet Miers?

I know some people warned that the second pick would be much worse.

[Quixote1818]

5. I actually thought we should have gone with her because I knew

Bush would do a hard right to make his base happy again. Then again, it's hard to say what Miers would have been like. I thought it was interesting that Reid and others seemed to like her.

[sasha031]

4. you can't blame the Dem's on that

it was the wacko christian right and their obsession with Row vs Wade

[w13rd0]

7. exactly...

...we've nothing to do with Harriet Miers. In that instance, they really weren't looking for a "straight up or down vote". It's all bullshit. Democracy is a sham, and the pResident is a f'n traitor.

[underpants]

9. Right she was thrown up to give them something to swat at

they swatted. The Republicans spun it as the Dems being against her. The put Alito up - everyone screamed that the Dems couldn't be against TWO in a row just couldn't do it- the Dems had already spent all their political capitol on Meirs. So Alito goes through.

[napi21]

6. I suspect she would have been easier swayed by others on the

court. I don't think she had a very strong determination, and perhaps Ginsberg and the other Dem appointees would have been able to convince her they were right. I think Alito will cozy up to Scalia and Thomas. Of course this is just a guess, and we'll never know about Harriett.

[Crazy Dave]

8. The Neocons sure know how to put up a fight!

She never had a chance with them. They fought harder against her than our people against Roberts and Alito. The most shocking was that Byrd voted for Roberts. Where's the brave fighters anymore? It damn sure isn't any of the two fine democratic senators who will be demanding that we vote for them in 2008 for president so that no right-wing judges can be appointed. They count on because it's so true, Americans have short memories.

[Rowdyboy]

10. That was obvious to anyone with half a brain from the start.....

Miers would have been a weak, easily led justice who could conceivably wind up on our side. Instead we get Scalito, the anti-O'Conner. I couldn't understand why people on our side were demanding she withdraw. Some people don't recognize to gift when they receive one.