The Truth Laid Bear is taking a blog-poll on the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court in a unique way. He is using a bot to go around to weblogs registered in the Blogosphere Ecosystem to get positions on the nomination, avoiding the vote spamming that so often distorts polls. I want to participate, along with checking to see if Random Fate gets re-listed properly in the Ecosystem (I’ll be sending NZ Bear an email later to ask if he could fix things if the scripts don’t take care of it). Here goes:

I oppose the Miers nomination.

I am in opposition for two reasons:

First – Someone who needs to “bone up” on Constitutional Law is not “the best qualified” to rule on what is Constitutional or not. I don’t think any further explanation of this point is needed.

Second – Although I am in disagreement with his conclusion, Don Surber is correct when he writes, “It comes down to trusting Bush.” I have not trusted George W. Bush from when he was Governor of Texas (I lived there at the time), and he has shown little reason for me to trust him since. To the contrary, the way that his Presidency has been handled, with many critical issues completely botched, not to mention the antics of his spin-machine, I would state that George W. Bush has given me plenty of reasons to trust him less.

I didn’t oppose the nomination of John Roberts. The man was obviously highly qualified, and he did not appear to be an ideologue who would put party above country. Sadly, I believe at least some of the support for Harriet Miers is from those very ideologues who claim to put the nation first when they decry “judicial activism” but in reality want someone who will “rule right” and be an activist to their liking.

There it is.