Reid, who was raised in a small Nevada mining town and worked his way through law school, alluded in an interview to Miers' struggles as a young woman working part time to pay for her education after her father was incapacitated by a stroke.

"She overcame difficult family circumstances to become the managing partner of a successful 400-lawyer Dallas law firm," Reid said.

Elonka offered this link on Miers, which is frankly the first really positive comment I've seen on her that didn't involve her religion.