To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.