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I don't think her lack of judicial experience was the problem. There have been Supreme Court apointees who had no prior judicial experience. The greatest/worst Chief Justice in history had been govenor of California before his nomination.

Apparently, she did herself a lot of damage by demonstrating little or no understanding of constitutional law in the one-on-one interviews with Senators that were supposed to help her win the nomination.

The problem with her nomination was that the right-wing fanatics thought she was a liberal. They figure (rightly) that they put Bush in office, and that he "owes" them this seat. The fact that their views are so extreme that a nominee acceptable to them would not get the consent of the Senate (remember, a lot of them had reservations about Roberts) seems to have escaped them.

There's trouble in Republican City ... and it's going to get worse over the next three years.