George I trusted you when you said "I will nominate the best and brightest jurists this nation has to offer... judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas" Harriet Miers was none of those.

I would not trust this man as far as you could throw a stick.

"Trust me". . .he will sell us the snake-oil social security plan- WHOOPS! He will give us the holy-constitutional-amendment 'protecting' marriage- WHOOPS! He will find the weapons- WHOOPS! He will be a fiscal conservative- WHOOPS! He will actually have a plan in Iraq- WHOOPS! Hey redneck, you'll excuse me for not believing you.

We trusted him on Iraq. We trusted him on how good he FEMA would be. We trusted him on.... Well, our trust has been betrayed too many times. No more.

Never trust anyone who wants to take you out on a limb. This is just Bush doing more damage control on his base. It's kind of tough to earn trust when you're losing credibility at the same time.

Bush saying "Trust me." doesn't really mean anything. Obviously people can see that Bush has faith in her, or else he wouldn't nominate her. What Bush needs to realize is that others will have to gain trust in her as well, and it takes more than George's word to do that.

"Trust me" is a reason to oppose her? Not for me. I don't like her nomination, this was a golden opportunity for GWB to reward his base of conservatives and appoint one of the short-list conservative jurists we'd envisioned when we supported him. But, for whatever reason, he decided to defy his base. When Clinton was president, democrats got Ginsburg. She of the ACLU general counsel background. Conservatives get Miers but if Clinton's criteria were applied to THIS nomination, it would not have been over-the-top to appoint someone closely tied to the Christian Coalition, the NRA or the National Right to Life Committee.

Spoken with all the typical charm of a used-car salesman. George II won't get the smooth ride he'd hoped for by nominating this constipated schoolmarm (she'll probably wiggle in, but with a nasty chunk of grumble on both sides of the aisle). Strange how Johnny's Catholicism was pushed aside by the ol' cowpoke, while Harriet's fundagelical foibles were lassoed and branded like a prize bull. As this'll be the only "achievement" he'll have to show for eight years of pandered tenure, you almost feel a conciliatory shame in bucking the effort (ALMOST). Rightly seen as a rump-smooching sop that'll keep the "God Squad's" dance card filled for many a magical country-club evening. Just when I say politics can't get any greasier, the Texas Two-Stepper shows me the error of my ways. Huckstered cronyism in all its naked glory.