The split on the right

The argument of the Miers' nomination continues. People with vastly greater educations than mine parry back and forth on the relative merits of Miers or the lack thereof. Could this be part of the plan? I doubt it. Why would the White House anticipate the bulk of opposition of this nomination would come from the right? Perhaps they were confident, arrogantly so, that the track record of the judicial nominees to date would allow the base to trust their judgment. Why shouldn't they have been confident? Most of the base had never heard of John Roberts before his nomination, and he made the Donkey Dinosaurs look stupid at the hearings. (Not that they really are stupid, just stupid by comparison.) I, for one, am glad that someone without the blazer is finally deemed worthy to sit on the Court that decides who lives or dies, which laws pass muster, and which laws are unconstitutional because of a "penumbra" that I am too stupid to see. Amonst the big bloggers only Hugh Hewitt seems to want to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt. I think his hard-earned track record deserves better.