Sad that you seem to be okay with selling conservative values downriver for ANOTHER 20 years just because you're offended with a little tough aimed at seeing an originalist with those values on the Supreme Court. Perhaps you'd have preferred that Patrick Henry "tone it down"?
I, for one, am perfectly happy to hear someone give it to the President straight up; I sure would, given the opportunity. I am under no illusion that framing the call for an originalist in dulcet tones would aid in bringing the President face-to-face with the profile the Court needs now and the will of the People to make it happen.
No. Let the message be delivered in stark terms: the mass of the Republic may well rest wholly upon this and the next one or two nominees, and THIS President will likely be the one to select them all. At such a dire juncture, one ought feel no reluctance to dispense with decorous formailties in order that clarity is assured.
So, then, I add my own voice to the ranks:
Mr. President, you will do well to remember all who have labored to put you where you are; to give you majorities in both houses of Congress; to back you up at the polls, at the UN, and in the court of Public Opinion. We, the People have stood up for you, Mr. President, and NOW we are calling in our chips. We want a conservative, constitutional originalist on the Supreme Court, Mr. President. That is what we will settle for, and no less. You will nominate someone of that stripe. You will exercise your political muscle to shepherd that nominee through the Senate. You will have as many 'come to Jesus' meetings with as many Senators as it takes to bring them around to your way of thinking. You will not shrink, shirk or waffle, Mr. President. You will persevere.
THIS is why we put you back in the White House. Not for "four more years", but for two or three good originalist Supreme Court justices. What you do with this opportunity and any like it that may follow, will define the whole of your Presidential legacy for the Ages. Upon this and any following nominations to the Supreme Court, you will either rise to the vault of the heavens or sink into utter ignominy and, in either case, Mr. President, know that none of your core supporters will do so much as raise a pinky finger to "tone it down."
There are better ways to get your point across. I don't respect someone who acts like this.