Too focused on conservatives to see whole picture

It seems that some political writers, like David Broder in this article, are way too focused on the small part that complained about Miers not being a known conservative. They really seem to miss the point that was stated by many on all sides that said she was not "qualified."

My contention was always that she did not have the kind of career that proved that she was capable of handling the challenege of the SCOTUS. For all I know, she may have been perfectly able. However, I am not going to hire a ship captain for an oil tanker who has only commanded a charter fishing boat. Both have experience on the seas and know the rules. However, they are completely different jobs and require different resumes.

If the President made a mistake, it was thinking the 'trust me' line would work. Alito is the choice who should have been made. The weakness was that Bush was afraid of putting forward a qualified candidate with a paper trail. There was no weakness in Miers pullback. It was the intelligent thing to do. Only an idiot would have pushed forward for a vote that he had no chance to win.

The pundits claiming it is a breach of the call for "up or down vote" are just trying to spin the fact that the candidate in front of them now is formidable and will not be the pinata that Miers would have been.

Our government is full of "C" students. Look at who we had running for President in 2004, the Peter Principal at its finest. We need some "A" students at some level of government to try to bring some sense to it. I could not care less if it is a right or left leaning. I just want some of the best minds on the SCOTUS.