Miers: A career avoiding the originialist movement to becoming its putative champion

Bush says to trust her. (1) I don't know. (2) I don't know why I'm being asked to trust her.

Miers avoided in her entire career any alignment with the originalist movement.

I'm beginning to wonder if she's really, really prepared to champion it, or is she the designated safe vote. (As we thought O'Connor, Souter, and Kennedy were)

Bush misunderestimated the loyalty of the conservative movement to principle.

This seems like a win-win to the Dems -- which is why if she's collapsed before the finish line, the Dems will drag her across it. If she's utterly clueless before the judiciary committee, she will be rejected and Bush will be humiliated. If she does OK, she's in a seat that could have gone to a non-crony originalist judge. We will have to wait for the third vacancy on the Court.

I don't like the undercurrent of -- on the one hand, we know she's an originalist, but no we didn't discuss Roe, privacy, gay marriage, Kelo, etc. Someone's lying.