Two interesting emails, I thought:

Jonah,
Ms. Miers is a “nice” person and that really is the problem. The libs have spent the past 40 years in Congress, the courts and yes even with Bush I, eating alive “nice” Republicans. The list is long and depressing…Orin Hatch, among others, comes immediately to mind.
Everyone is making such a huge deal that this entire brouhaha is simply high brow conservatives within the beltway opposing Ms. Miers. I am as red state as you can get. Graduated from a Baptist university, attend a very evangelical church, five kids, six wives, ok, not that, but still. In my conversations with other Republicans the past week or so we are all appalled at the Miers pick.
All one has to do is read that stuff on Drudge, Frum, Brooks, etc. and you realize she is a very good bureaucrat but doesn’t have a well thought out ideology. She has spent her entire life AVOIDING taking any stand at all on tough issues. She will be at least as bad as Souder.
Seriously, the Federalist Society is “political” and “divisive” but the ACLU and NAACP are not. WoW!!! That says it all!
If she is confirmed, you and your couch are doomed! Doomed I say!

And…

Jonah,
Excellent, well-balanced, well-reasoned, and High-larious column….
The conservative Chattering class has really gotten thier huggies in a bunch over this. It’s been pretty intersting to watch.
For what it is worth, “The Base” (a.k.a. the people who don’t write or talk for a living) seems inclined to trust the President. I own a small town Hardware Store, so I talk to a lot of them every day. Many know my political leanings ( Rush playing on the radio in my store tends to tip them off) so the subject has come up numerous times. I am no longer active in party politics, but was once Chairman of our county YR Club, for six years a GOP precinct committeeman, and an elected Alderman in Illinois second largest city. I have a BA in Poli-Sci from NIU, and shelled out $500 to spend an evening in Chicago with you guys (something I would never do to spend an evening with Bono, although I am a fan). Thus, I am more politically minded than most, but I tend to feel the same way.
HM would not have been my pick. That being said, David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day-O’Connor, John Paul Stevens, and Harry Blackmun, would not have been either.
PONNURU for SCOTUS!