While I tend to the liberal side on most issues, I have to agree with George Will and others who maintain that the big issue with the Miers nomination was her qualifications, or lack thereof. I recognize and accept the fact that a conservative President will nominate a conservative to the Court, but I find it insulting when he nominates someone with no apparent credentials and says, in effect, "trust me".

Nobody really had a firm grasp on Miers's views, and the process wasn't likely to shed much light on them. The confirmation process has unfortunately evolved into a game of nominating "stealth" candidates and going through an elaborate dance whereby they avoid answering any questions of substance; and while the formal confirmation hearings hadn't yet started, that process was already well underway. But in the end, I think that neither conservatives nor liberals were prepared to confirm this nominee based on nothing more than the President's good opinion of her.