nominated miers five years ago senator cornyn said, "one reason i felt so strongly about harriet miers' qualifications is i felt she would fill some very important gaps in the supreme court. because right now you have people who have been federal judges, circuit judges, most of their lives or academicians. cornyn is a party guy, fair enough. he's a bush guy, fair enough. he's caught saying 180 what he said before. it's not refreshing in this case to have somebody off of the bench. it's not good. >> the real mistake, i think, is assuming we have a standard resume for justices, anything our current court is by too far homogeneous in terms of the social and religious backgrounds. we benefit from having different influences, different backgrounds. i think it's ludicrous to say