While they are certainly not his main support base (one would hope) it is the organization that is backing his nomination.
President Bush should QUICKLY nominate his friend Alberto Gonzalez.
He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.
Then they should get one more of the old republican justices to announce.
Bush nominates a person who tips the court. This will energize the base for the mid-term elections AND possibly bring us a filibuster proof Senate.
>>>>President Bush should QUICKLY nominate his friend Alberto Gonzalez. He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.
Well, he'd get all the democratic votes, only people to oppose him would be a handful of non RINO-republicans. I, however, will stay home a couple years from now when the RINOs call to ask me to work again. I didn't bust my but to put Bush's liberal cronies on the court.
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Gonzales is a legal lightweight, not withstanding questions regarding his positions regarding the 2nd Amendement, abortion and illegal immigration. He would be an inferior choice.
Gonzalez is a left-leaning moderate La Raza skunk whose main qualification is his ethnic heritage.
He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.
O'Connor was a left leaning moderate whose main qualification for the job was a vagina. Once the dust clears she will go down as one of the all-time worst SCJs. A legal gymnast if there ever was one.
This president said he would nominate justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. Another dopey affirmative action nomination will be the last frigging straw.
All I could think of when I read this post was some twisted version of the "Bad Idea Jeans" sketch on SNL.
Guy #1: "Well, he's an ex free-base addict, and he's trying to turn around, and he needs a place to stay for a couple of months.
BAD IDEA
Guy #2: Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, "When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?"
BAD IDEA
G.W. Bush: I think I'll nominate Alberto Gonzales to the Surpreme Court. He should provide a reliable conservative vote on the Surpreme Court for years to come.
BAD IDEA
Shhhh... If you go around spouting off the strategy, the Dems might be able to defend themselves.
Or maybe they won't because they think they're smarter than Bush.
"Old Republicans"? Well, you've got Scalia and Thomas. Both of them have a good ten years left. You've got Souter (appointed by 41). He hasn't done us any favors recently. That leaves you with Stevens (appointed by Ford). He's got it in his will that he should be stuffed and propped into his Seat should he die before another Dem is elected Prez.
So now you're left with a guy completely unacceptable to strict constructionists on the court.
Gonzalez??? NO!!!!
We need a Judge with a real track record of conservative Jurisprudence ... Gonzalez is not it.
Michael Luttig, Edith Jones, Janice Rogers Brown, etc. are it.
If Conzalez is nominated, the conservative base would be so dissappointed it could demolish Bush's core base of support.
Just say no to moderate/liberal picks.
I don't know that Al Gonzales will be in our favor at all.
While they are certainly not his main support base (one would hope) it is the organization that is backing his nomination.
Gonzalez will NOT energize the base, Gonzalez will divide the base.
His negatives have been discussed too often to be viable.