Now how about Ginsberg and the other supreme court fellow nominated by Bill Clinton, these are the kind of left wing judges you will get from a Democrat President and even much worse from someone as liberal as Hillary Clinton (by the way she will never be President).
Abortion: Did President Bush and the GOP Congress banned the murder of partial birth abortion. I recall that Bill Clinton refused twice to sign ban on partial birth abortion bill, and I think you remember this as well. The fighting against Roe vs Wade is long and we will chip at it once at a time.
UN: President Bush has defied the UN and it stupid corrupted body more than other President before him. How about the war of liberation in Iraq? I recall that he went against the impotent UN on this one.
I'm saying that the GOP has morphed from the Contract With America in 1994 to a party that seems to LIKE bigger government (since it is now in charge of such) and is not willing to fight for the core convictions of its base - and is differentiated from the Dems in most cases simply by the fact that they aren't as bad. All of the points you raise, and your subsequent counter-points, are mostly a matter of degrees of difference with the Dems (with the exception of the PBA). Anymore, the GOP hardly stands for much of anything (except for the war on Iraq, which is a notable exception, but which is hard to comprehend when we also don't secure our own borders in a time of war). Ignoring the base is a recipe for political suicide. Bush doesn't have to run for re-election again. But the GOP has to run candidates in 2006 and 2008. Bush ignores the base at the party's peril.