...that Bush nominated Miers:
Bush is paying off all his debts. Roberts was the intellectual conservatives' bone; Miers is the religious right's bone. Remember, when Roberts was nominated, Christian Conservatives were not happy...they had to be convinced.
...intellectual conservatives have a problem:
The guys who are most upset are best described as career conservatives. Helen Miers elevation invalidates everything they know about social and career advancement. It is also unsupportable by the criteria they publicly espouse and therefore invalidates that as well. They feel like birds that suddenly found gravity pulling diagonally instead of down.
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