If you could go back in time, Miers or Alito?

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

Would you want Harriet Miers, arguably less qualified than Samuel Alito but arguably more moderate than Alito? Or would you want Alito over Miers? I'm not giving any other options, because the objective of this poll is to see should the Democrats have let Miers be confirmed in 2005/2006?

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[elleng]

1. Definitely Miers.

Alito's my 'least favorite.'

[bigwillq]

2. Neither

but Dems should have let Miers' have a confirmation hearing.

Edited: Nevermind. I guess she withdrew before hearing. I couldn't remember. Had to Google.

[PoliticAverse]

3. They didn't stop her from getting one. It was a revolt of conservatives that caused her to withdraw

before her already scheduled Judiciary hearing was to begin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers_Supreme_Court_nomination

[bigwillq]

4. Yes, I know that now.

Posted my first comment, but then had to edit after I checked out google.

[sharp_stick]

5. Miers was horribly unqualified

I know it's not a hard and fast requirement but I at least expect a Supreme Court Justice to have experience as a judge.

[Stallion]

6. Miers EASILY

I've actually met her numerous times-was on speaker phone conference yesterday in fact. She has been a moderate Republican all her life and is much less an ideologue. She broke barriers such as leadership in Dallas Bar Association and Texas Bar Association her entire life in the legal profession. Right wing Republicans are the ones who derailed her candidacy and that should be a big hint. She likely would have aligned roughly with Sandra Day O'Connor

[dmr]

8. I always suspected why the cons were so adamant against her.

It was a strange pick, Bush* made back then. I figured it was a pay back for something she did for him. Maybe it was. But seeing that she's less of a strict con, maybe she would've been better.

I'm just unhappy with the biased 'activist' judges, but thrilled their ringleader is gone. The next 8 years we'll probably replace at least 4 judges. Woo hoo!

This was an interesting question.

[hifiguy]

7. Miers,

as she probably would have pulled a Sherman Minton and bugged out after a couple of years, realizing she wasn't up to the job. Soapy Sam is a blight on the court. Now he'll be working twice as hard. Someone has to replace Scalia as Uncle Ruckus' brain/ventriloquist.