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Gonzales would be a bad choice.
Of course I don't believe that there really is any chance of reversing Roe in the next 20-30 years. I really don't believe that Dubya is going to nominate three conservative judges to the SCOTUS even if he has 3 vacancies - Rehnquist, O'Connor and Stevens, he will probably be forced to nominate at least one moderate (someone like Anthony Kennedy). I mean come on - in the last 35 years Republican presidents nominated 10 judges to the SCOTUS - only seven of them turned out to be truly conservative (Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas). Four turned out to be moderate or moderately liberal (Burger, Powell, O'Connor and Kennedy) and three ended up as being hard-core liberals (Blackmun, Powell and Souter). So don't expect too much from GWB. Even if he thinks that he is nominating a conservative judge he may always become a Harry Blackmun