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Was the Miers nomination legit from the beginning?
Recall that after the Bork debacle Reagan nominated a guy named Ginzberg(sp?), a non-entity about as qualified as Miers. When that started to become controversial also, lo and behold it was discoverd that the guy had smoked pot as a college law professor and the nomination was withdrawn. Reagan then selected a moderate, Arthur Kennedy. Everyone was so tired of the fighting by then he was quickly confirmed.
Or was it more cynical than that. Did Rove, er, Bush, select Miers for the same reason that Thomas was selected: to be a clone of Scalia? Did they intend to use the Br'er Rabbit ploy, with the Right making play acting objections hoping that that the left would figure anyone the Right hated that much can't be all bad, but it backfired? Was the Right maybe not able to decipher the secret handshakes, body language and code words, or perhaps too distrustful?
