Intelligent Design and the Harriet Miers Project

Is there some correlation between Intelligent Design vs. Evolution and the Pro/Con Debate around Miers? I'm not sure I can go as far as to say ID proponents are all supporters of Miers and vice versa... but I can make an analogy using the best arguments that ID and Evolution people make:

• Evolution advocates claim that ID is bunk, junk science and doesn't deserve a seat at the table because it hasn't met the scientific criteria they require.
  
• ID proponents (disclosure: I'm one of them) claim that they are worthy of attention because they are simply following the evidence where it leads them. What's more ID folk think the rules of science need to be revisited.
  
  
• Pro-evolution forces claim that a majority of scientists think that ID is bunk.
• ID forces claim that there are a number of scientists that think highly of the theory and that there many more lay people support their position.
  
  
• Evolutionists require proof that ends in scientific reasoning.
  
• ID advocates claim the proof is there if they would simply give ID a chance.
  
  
• Evolution folk feel that ID is simply creationism in disguise.
• ID folk deny this but claim that a theory consistent with beliefs is not a bad thing.

Any takers? Draw your own parallels.