Gonzales is the one who crafted and announced the policy that the White House would no longer rely on the ABA's recommendations for judicial appointments.
A strict constructionist IS a conservative. Have you read his opinions?
Notice how this somehow gets lost when you only have one issue? Suddenly, the anti-Bushies want judges to re-write the law and become the activist judges the conservatives claim to hate.
A strict comstructionist would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade regardless of his personal views about abortion. Would Gonzales do this?