OK, he has a microphone. He should not have special access to the WH. He should not have any more of a say in who Bush nominates to the SC than anyone else. Would you tolerate Planned Parenthood advising/approving/vetoing a nominee by a Democrat?
President Bush was elected because of the man that he is, a majority-favored combination of his beliefs political and spiritual and social; the words with which he expresses the beliefs and the history that he has both as man and leader to prove that he means them; and those whom he chooses to surround himself with and be counselled by - mostly Christians.
Perhaps that's the problem for the naysayers here and elsewhere: A Christian President, his Christian friends, and his Christian nominees and appointments. That would not surprise me.