Hugh the Anti-Miers Slayer

Just when I think I'm on the brink, ready to jump into the Anti-Miers battalion (ala Ed Whelan but with a smaller splash) just at that moment I read the transcript of Hugh Hewitt demolishing an NRO pundit. The list is pretty long and most of these you can find on radioblogger.com: Ramesh, Frum, Podhoretz, Kurtz, Lowry, Frum again last night.

Hugh is a very persuasive guy. Although I have to admit that his strategy has turned a bit. He's moved from defending her record to defending the right of President Bush to make the pick to pointing out the very real dangers of opposing the pick.

Last night he convinced me that Frum is on dangerous unprecedented ground.

(Come to think of it, that's a strange phenomenon... advocates of ancient constitutional precedent charting unprecedented ground to oppose the SCOTUS pick from someone in their own party)

Hugh makes some excellent points about the very real and detrimental ramifications if Miers goes down.

I could go on... But I think that there are 2 things that turn me off from the Anti-Miers crowd:

1) I'm just completely uncomfortable seeing groups form to raise money to defeat Miers. That's just odd. And while it doesn't represent everyone in the anti crowd, it taints the whole. I'm not sure I want to throw my hat in that mess

2) Is there really a "disqualification" for Miers at this time? For the longest time conservatives have advocated that personal merit and not ideology should be the qualification. Yes, Miers was not a judgen but is there really a disqualification in her record? Even the argument that she hasn't had constitutional experience is an idealogical argument. I'm not willing to disqualify her because she's never "written an Op/Ed piece".

Hugh is correct, this is the Borking of Harriet Miers.

I'm hoping to exemplify this in next week's video.