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Don't believe the President floated any names, nor will he do so. He is much smarter than his foes, in their customary manner, have depicted him. And, he is much too smart to seek advice on this crucial matter from the likes of these Senators, whose game playing do not make them credible selectors of Justices who should be the guardians for "the people's" liberty.

Here's my post on another thread on this subject:

The President of the United States would do well to use his time reviewing the writings of America's Founders, its first few Presidents, and THE FEDERALIST, the series of 85 essays published in NY newspapers and written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay as expositions of the meaning and intent of the Constitution. A two-volume edition was published in 1788 for use in the ratification process in the other states.

According to Thomas Jefferson's record of an 1825 meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, the Board directed use of the 85 essays as the text for its law school in studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man."

Jefferson's minutes stated, "The Federalist constitute and authority to which appeal is habitually made by all, and rarely declined or denied by any as evidencee of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U. S., on questions as to its genuine meaning."

For many decades, they were used as the basis for study in schools across America as a means of enlightening the minds of citizens on their Constitution.

America's ideas of liberty are under attack from without, and worse, from within, by those who would deny the Constitution's basis in the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence--Creator-endowed life, liberty, and rights, the foundation that distinguished it from all other constitutions that had ever been written.

Whether or not the ideas survive for posterity may well rest on the momentous decisions this President is about to make.

He does not need to consult his base, nor does he need to consult and compromise with the Left. He does need to consult the words and actions of his noble predecessors, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jay, and others who devised a formula for liberty which is unique in the world. Like them, President George W. Bush will be judged by future generations by his willingness to sacrifice all for the cause of liberty!