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"There is something conservatives need to remember. Judges are only nominated by Presidents and Governors. It's the Senators (U.S. or state) who actually confirm them"

True, but a judge can't be confirmed if the executive doesn't nominate him. If RINO Governors Weld and Cellucci hadn't nominated liberals to the Mass. Supreme Court, we wouldn't have had a decision like Goodridge. It is imperative that we elect conservative governors and (obviously) presidents.

But I agree with you that electing conservative Senators is also of paramount importance, and that's why we need to support Pat Toomey in PA, Herman Cain or Mac Collins in GA (I personally prefer Cain, but Collins would be fine as well, since he's also a conservative who will win in November), Mel Martinez or Daniel Webster in FL, Richard Burr in NC, Jim DeMint in SC, David Vitter in LA and other conservative Republican Senate candidates. And in a state such as NY, where a true conservative would face a very uphill battle against Schumer, we should embrace Rudy Giuliani in spite of his pro-abortion position, since the R next to his name will keep the GOP in the majority in the Senate and in the Judiciary Committee and since Rudy wouldn't vote to filibuster a Bush nominee. As much as I hate Chafee, you've got to admit that had the pro-life Dem Bob Weygand won in 2000 the RATs would have been in control of the Senate from January of 2001 (which means W. probably wouldn't have gotten his first tax cut and some other laws passed) and Weygand would have been yet another vote in favor of the judicial filibusters (which Chafee has not been). In conclusion, I think we should be more willing to accept a RINO Senator from a liberal state than a RINO governor from any state. As fieldmarshaldj can attest, the damage done by RINO governors is far worse than anything a RINO Senator could ever do (and that includes the Jeffords party switch).

In Texas and other states judges are still elected. We need to resist the trend to let them be appointed by governors.

I forgot to mention Jack Ryan of Illinois as another example of a pro-life conservative we should support in his run for the U.S. Senate.