Is Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers doomed? It certainly appears so. You see, with the revelation that she actually supported banning abortion, and is on the record as supporting it, all bets are off.

Now the Democrats (including Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, Lincoln Chaffe, John McCain, and others) have their reason to oppose her. With Democrats, abortion is a litmus test -- you simply cannot oppose abortion at any time, in any place, ever in your life, or you are not accepted in a national position of the Democrat Party.

If the Democrats unify behind their leader in opposing her, as they likely will, it will only take a few Republicans to completely derail her nomination. The RINOs will likely join with the Democrats because of the abortion issue (note that you can be pro- or anti-abortion and still be a Republican).

In addition, if just one or two conservative Republican (okay, if there were any) Senators also oppose her for any reason, she's done.

I'm not pretending to have an inside track into Washington, but if the Democrats form into a mass blob of unity, as they are wont to do, I can see this nomination suddenly being withdrawn. It won't likely be Bush that withdraws her, as that would be admitting defeat.

Instead, I think Miers will come up with a "personal issue," or give some other reason to withdraw her own nomination. The Democrats aren't the only group that doesn't like her.

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