Well said Bobby Eberle.
PresBush said to Tim Russert during the "2000 Campaign", that his idea of a Supreme Court Justice, would be to appoint someone in the mold of Anton Scalia or Clarence Thomas. I agree and would add the name of William Reinquest to that very short list. Kennedy and O'Conner aren't ardent conservatives and haven't lived up to their original billing.
OTOH, its hard for any president, or anyone else for that matter to predict how a SC nominee will turn out after 25-35 years on the nations highest court. The appointments of Warren Burger, Earl Warren and David Souter are recent examples of some judges, who over a period of time have drastically changed their judicial perspective and have come to be influenced by outside sources.
Judges need to stick to the original intent of the Constitution and follow the Founding Fathers prescription for our constitutional Republic. Judicial activism isn't the sign of a conservative court.
The Constitution is not worth a warm pitcher of spit. The Supreme Court always rules as it wants to rule no matter what the words on the parchment say.
If leftists control the court they will say the constitution means whatever they want it to mean... no matter what the words in that document mean.
If Conservatives rule the court, they will mostly rule correctly according to the meaning of the document. But if their were No Written Constitution Conservative Justices would still make the same rulings.