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Here's an old letter I sent to W:

Dear President Bush, With the Surpeme Court session getting ready to close, it may well be time for perhaps the most important domestic decision of your presidency: the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice(s). The main reason why I supported you in 2000 and why I wanted Daschle out of power in 02 (and 04) has to do with the courts. I want America courts to interpret law, not write law. During your presidential campaign you said Thomas and Scalia were your two model justices. Those are excellent models. The High Court needs more like them. Clarence Thomas recently said to students that the tough cases were when what he wanted to do was different from what the law said. And he goes by the law. This should be a model philosophy for our justices. Your father, President Bush lost his reelection campaign for 3 main reasosn, as far as I can see. 1. he broke the no new taxes pledge 2. David Souter 3. Clinton convinced people we were in a Bush recession (which we had already come out of by the time Clinton was getting sworn in)

I urge you to learn from all three of these: 1. on taxes, you're doing great. Awesome job on the tax cut. 2. good job so far on judicial appointments. I want to see more of a fight for Estrada, Owen, and Pickering, but I commend you on your nominations. 3. by staying engaged in the economic debate you'll serve yourself well

I have been thoroughly impressed with your handling of al Queida, Iraq, and terrorism. You have inspired confidence and have shown great leadership.

But I want to remind you that your Supreme Court pick(s) will be with us LONG after you have departed office. I urge you to avoid the tempation to find a "compromise" pick. Go for a Scalia or Thomas. Don't go for an O'Connor or Kennedy. To be specific, get someone who is pro-life. Roe v Wade is one of the worst court decisions I know of, and it's the perfect example of unrestrained judicial power.

I know the temptation will be tremendous on you to nominate a moderate. But remember who your true supporters are. I am not a important leader or politician. I am "simply" a citizen who has been an enthusiatic supporter of you. I am willing to accept compromise in many areas of government but I will watch your Court nomiantions extremely closely. What the Senate Dems are doing right now is disgusting, but as the President you have the bully pulpit to stop it. Democrats will back down if you turn up serious heat on them.

Moreover, I think public opinion is shifting towards the pro-life position. Dems will want you to nominate a moderate, but almost all will vote against you anyways. Pro-choice Repubs will likely still vote for you if you nominate a Scalia, after all, you campaigned on it. So Mr. President, I urge you to stick with your campaign statements and nominate justices who believe in judicial restraint, like Scalia and Thomas.

Happy Memorial Day and may God bless you and your family.

Being active in politics gets old. But, there is saying that says when good people do nothing, evil flourishes. Well, if we don't actively support Bush and his nominees, nobody will. I've been trying to spend much of mine time of FR simply bumping threads related to Estrada, abortion politics, Supreme Court etc. Hopefully many FR have been brought up to speed on the Estrada/filibuster issue. I have also tried to tie this issue into to some liberals wanting to filibuster the extension of the assault weapons bill. There are freepers who are pro-gun, but not pro-life. Showing those Freepers the importance of breaking the filibuster might help make them see the importance of breaking the filibuster.

I don't claim to know the best strategey to get Bush's nominations confirmed. Actually, it's called electing more conservatives to the US Senate. I do know that calls, emails, faxes, letters etc are crucial in making sure the GOP doesn't cave. They're also crucial in keeping pressure on the Dems.

This effort might last through the election. It might reach a certain point where we should spend 100% of our effort on Freeping our guys from the right. I'd say we'd reach that point once we know that there will be no SC retirements before the election, June of 2004. Until then, we need to keep the heat on the Dems, even if it seems pointless, useless, and a waste of time. This is not a one man job. If I do some, you do some and thousands of others do some, it makes a HUGE difference.

So in summation, the Court is too important to leave to the liberals!