Rebel Alliance Expands

Polipundit:

Since her nomination was announced, I’ve said that Harriet Miers should be confirmed to the Supreme Court, despite her unexciting qualifications, because she’s a conservative. Information that has come out over the last week has caused me to believe she is not a conservative. So I’m changing my position: Harriet Miers should not be confirmed by the Senate.

On Roe v. Wade, I have no doubt that Miers is a rock-solid pro-lifer. If this were the only issue that mattered, then Miers would have my full support.

But there are any number of other issues before the Court, foremost among them the racial discrimination that goes on in the name of affirmative action. On these issues, Miers would at best be a squishy liberal like Justice O’Connor....

Harriet Miers is Alberto Gonzales in a dress....

Well, at least President Bush spared us that. Gonzales never got ensembles.

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal's John Fund has switched from being at least a fellow-traveler of The Loyalist Army:

I have changed my mind about Harriet Miers. Last Thursday, I wrote in OpinionJournal's Political Diary that "while skepticism of Ms. Miers is justified, the time is fast approaching when such expressions should be muted until the Senate hearings begin. At that point, Ms. Miers will finally be able to speak for herself."

But that was before I interviewed more than a dozen of her friends and colleagues along with political players in Texas. I came away convinced that questions about Ms. Miers should be raised now--and loudly--because she has spent her entire life avoiding giving a clear picture of herself. "She is unrevealing to the point that it's an obsession," says one of her close colleagues at her law firm....

Update: I quibble with only one of Polipundit's points:

Miers just doesn’t seem to understand who the friends and enemies of modern conservatism are. Such ignorance is dangerous.

As I noted over in Polipundit's comments section, I think Harriet Miers knows perfectly well who the friends and enemies of modern conservatism are. But she isn't a modern conservative herself.  The more I read about her, the more she looks like a pro-life Rockefeller Republican, if I can span a couple political generations there. That’s fine, except it's not what I voted for.

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