I remember how scared I was when David Souter was chosen for SC

[PlanetBev]

A fifty year old, dour looking, never married man? The Wingers were assured that he was going to be their reliable friend on the court. Boy, did that blow up in their face. He turned out to be great.

Once again, I'm trying to manage my hysteria over Miers. I've been involved in the pro-choice movement since 1976, and I'm so tired of being scared.

I can only hope that Miers won't be as bad as I think that she'll be.

[eallen]

1. I worry about her more than Roberts.

I suspect what took the edge off Souter, and will take the edge off Roberts, is a long history of quite substantive legal reasoning relevant to the Constitution, for which they feel some respect.

Of course, I could be wrong.

[cantstandbush]

2. Now just why do you think that over time justices become a little more

"liberal." It's not they become "liberal." They become "wiser." If you have any semblence of wisdom you know that the hard RW is wrong on most issues. They never put people first. It's always about money and power and control and racism.

[MADem]

3. She is a total cipher

To the point where both sides are freaking out about her. Is she "new Bush loyal" with the Jeeeesus and the anti-choice stance? Or is she "old Bush loyal" with the moderate, say anything to be elected stance? Or is she bullshitting him, and will she go her own way once elevated????

Interesting RC article, here (sub req):

Brownback Calls for Thoroughly Questioning Miers

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) questioned Tuesday whether Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has a “firm commitment” to what he called the framers’ “original intent” of the Constitution, saying that President Bush’s knowledge of her “heart” didn’t end the need for tough questioning.

A potential 2008 presidential candidate and member of the Judiciary Committee, Brownback on Tuesday served up the most detailed and most hesitant statement among Senate Republicans on Miers’ nomination, waiting more than a day to offer up his critique.

“President Bush has a long-standing working relationship with Ms. Miers and I trust the president knows her heart and her mind. Even so, the confirmation process has just begun and questions about her views on the Constitution need to be answered,” Brownback said in a prepared statement, echoing Bush’s remarks Tuesday morning in a Rose Garden press conference.

Her nomination goes directly against the wishes of Brownback and many other social conservatives, who had said after the hearings for then-chief justice nominee John Roberts that they wanted the next Supreme Court nominee to be someone with a detailed track record on conservative issues, particularly opposition to the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationally. ...

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=rollcall_news&story.id=10745

[sallyseven]

10. Right Wingers hate women

They are frightened that women's reasoning will overtake the world. I hope she gets those bags fixed. 60 and never married must be a lesbian/ That is their take on her. Bush has a lot of women around him taking care of him. Everyone knows he is in desperate need of stability around him.

[serryjw]

4. Different time, Different President........Different

nominee.

[madaboutharry]

5. Souter is an intellectual and a

thinker. No one is saying that about Miers.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. Thinking and intellictualism is looked down upon today

Only mindless follow the leader is expected in all facests of life.

[madaboutharry]

8. Isn't that the truth!

With the chief idiot leading the way.

[tanyev]

7. Let's see...

Had Souter been the personal attorney/fixer/butt kisser for GHW for well over a decade? Did Souter gush that he thought GHW was the most brilliant man he had ever met? No and no. Miers is bad. Maybe not in the way some of the others would have been, but still very, very bad.

[elfin]

9. I wasn't

Bush Sr. prized his credentials as a "moderate" however untrue - when I heard Souter was single and lived with his Mom into adulthood, I suspected someone who was "outside" conventional thinking.

Unlike Meiers, who though single has hitched her very dim star to slavish devotion to Dumbya for many years - a predictable sycophant to all we fear and despise.

[Misskittycat]

11. I remember watching the Souter hearings in full; I was very impressed.

He was really brilliant and thoughtful, and thankfully he has completely vindicated my initial faith in him.