What crap. Ronald Reagan gave up O'Connor, Kennedy, and Scalia. GWB, assuming Alito gets in, will have Roberts and Alito. I daresay even Reagan would have preferred GWB's nominees over his own.
And, before you say that RWR had a minority Senate in 1987 and GWB was pressured over Miers, let's recognize that the stronger Republican Senate in 2005-6 AND the pressure brought to bear is evidence of a STRONGER GOP, not a weaker one.
2006 vs. 1987. Not even close. The 'Rats are going DOWN!!!
President Nixon nominated a conservative southern jurist, Clement Haynesworth, to the Supreme Court. His nomination was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate, with the help of liberal Republicans, by a vote of 55 - 45 on the grounds that as a judge he had made rulings favoring segregation and decisions in which he had a financial interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Haynesworth
Nixon then nominated G. Harold Carswell, who fared even worse and was rejected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Carswell
Nixon then nominated Harry Blackmun, a lifelong Republican who gave us Roe v. Wade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackmun