Furthermore every prolife group in the US WILL ABANDON the GOP FOREVER.
A Gonzales nomination WILL provoke a full scale grassroots civil war, with the grassroots threatening to torpedoe Frist, and Brownback, in 08, and Sabotage Santorums reelection bid in 2006 (Santorum is ranked 3rd in the Senate leadership) if they support Gonzales.
I don't think more than 20 GOP Senators would vote for Gonzales.
God Help us!
I never expected Roe to be overturned, anyway. What made you think it would be overturned anytime soon?
You can't count on the Supreme Court to overturn this. It will never happen.
You have to make is socially unacceptable and taboo.
That's the only way.
I too believe Gonzalez is the wrong man at the wrong time for the Chief Justice position. I have no confidence that he comprehends in the slightest the problems we have on our southern border.
The last thing I want to do is put him into a position of having to decide constitutional matters concerning our borders, or rights to be assigned to foreign nationals. There's no way in hell I want that man on the Supreme Court.
The more time that passes, the more brash the moves by the elitists.
Fine - - let him run away, and don't anybody chase after him!
I suspect these outside advisers have no clue who the President will nominate. They are, after all, outsiders.
But if you'll feel better going into full-scale panic mode on the basis of a WaPo article, by all means don't let me talk you out of it.
If Gonzales is selected I hope the Senate Republicans will filibuster him. But of course even if that happens then GOP senators like Chafee, McCain, etc. finally would use the nuclear option....
Some of the fiscal conservatives and libertarians in the forum don't seem to realize that there is NO WAY a conservative government can be formed without pro-life help. If they think their issues are important, I can assure them that the right to life is far more basic to us.
If Bush nominates a pro-abortion candidate for SCOTUS, he will go down in flames. That is the one thing that is simply unacceptable. Legalized abortion has been distorting our entire justice system for more than 30 years. It must go.
I had no problems with Gonzalez as attorney general, but he is unacceptable for SCOTUS. Absolutely unacceptable. That one move would undo everything Bush has done for the pro-life cause, pure and simple.
My understanding is different. It is my understanding that Scalia would move to Chief Justice of the United States, and that Gonzales would get the Associate Justice spot.
If President Bush nominates Gonzales for anything close to the Supreme Court then I think it would cause the loss of faith in him among conservatives in general. I don't think it is going to happen, liberals wish it would but they know that Bush will nominate a solid conservative and nothing less. Roe vs Wade is a horrible ruling and it should've been overturned but it will probably be with us for some time. The way is to errode it bit by bit by passing laws requiring parental and informed consent, passing laws regulating Abortion Clinics and making sure they meet the same standards that ordinary clinics are held to, and passing laws protecting the unborn when their mothers are violently attacked resulting in misscarriage. There are reasonable ways to box abortion in and force a reevalution of Roe vs Wade.
Anonymous sources?
The new memior out on Justice Blackmon shows they were only ONE vote short in 1995 in overturing Roe. ONE vote. Kennedy changed his mind. Gonzales is not pro 2-amendment. To me this is the BIG issue that will come up soon and one that has not been ruled on in many decades. I DO NOT WANT HIM.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Bush will not waste the first nomination of an Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme COurt with the replacement of Renquist. The Democrats will allow Bush to name a solid conservative to replace Renquist, as that will not change the ideological composition of the court. Bush will make the historic nomination of an Hispanic to replace the first liberal resinging from the court. The will be the confirmation fight of the millenium, revealing that the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Ciruit Court was just a preliminary. Plus, I don't think President Bush will nominate Attorney General Gonzalez (which is no knock on him). There is a rock-solid Hispanic Judge on one of the Circuit Courts who is high both on our lists of poissibilities as well as the opposition's enemies list.
Janice Rogers Brown for Supreme Court Justice. I would do it in a heartbeat.
Gonzales is unacceptable, period, let alone as a replacement for Reinquist. If the whole Republican party wants to face the wrath of the voters rather than just the seven RINOs that brokered the filibuster deal, this would be the decision that would do it.
Alberto R. Gonzales is a liberal through and through, we don't need a fox in the hen house.
Gonzales has been a WIMP as the AG. Not interested in him on the USSC.
Michael Chertoff is the man for the job.
Relax folks, the Washington Post is just speculating and hasn't a shred of facts for this article.