Just talked to a couple of people in the Bush orbit who was making the case for Miers. Comes down to: Bush has made good judicial picks to this point, so why would he suddenly go south now?; Miers has overseen the selection process that has produced many conservative nominees; she might not have a paper trail on hot-button issues before the court, but she has something more important: Bush’s absolute confidence that she is his sort of judge and that she won’t “grow” in office; everyone who works with her has the highest regard for her deep principle, and she is a well-grounded individual. The bottom line is “trust us.”