I think POTUS fully understands the gravity of his nominations. He's going for the gold.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you about this. Here's my take on this issue....I am 39 years old, and I don't realistically think that Roe V. Wade will ever be overturned, and certainly not in my lifetime. Sadly, I don't think that there is anyone who wears or will wear that black robe that will have the decency, moral conviction and willingness to interpret the US Constitution as it was meant to be interpreted by the Framers.
For the past 30+ years, millions of innocent and defenseless children have been forgotten and left to be slaughtered by the very people that are supposed to care for them and bring them into the world. This barbaric crime has become an accepted part of American life for decades now. We have a society that thrives on recklessness and selfishness. Folks want their "night of fun" and then the freedom to go and "take care of the problem" afterwards. We watched a defenseless woman being dehydrated to death in Florida, and a majority of Americans polled thought that the courts did right by ordering her feeding tube removed. When I sit and think of what so many of my fellow Americans approve of and condone, it breaks my heart. We are so lost, and it's the innocent and defenseless that are paying the price.
I hope and pray that someone will come to the rescue of those that cannot speak for themselves. I pray that President Bush will do the right thing here, but I'm not counting on it. The pressure and protest is going to be so great from the pro-death side that it will take a very good and strong human being to resist it.
Speaking as one Conservative, he'd better. Many of us have just about had it with his weakness on borders and international trade.