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Gary Bauer similarly said, "I think any conservative would be deeply concerned by a Gonzales nomination."

In a separate setting, pro-life activist Joseph Starrs told The Rutherford Institute, "I don't think he is a conservative. And if he is pro-life, I haven't seen anything to indicate it."

And the Family Research Council's Connie Mackey told The Washington Times, "There is a long list of qualified candidates who would uphold laws defending the sanctity of human life. It's not clear that Al Gonzales is one of them."

The Times explained: "As a Texas Supreme Court justice, Gonzales voted in several cases to allow a teenage girl to obtain an abortion without her parents' knowledge. He said he was following Texas law."

But Weblog may be getting ahead of itself here. Religious conservatives may not fuss about Gonzales's appointment as attorney general, thinking that it might at least keep him off the Supreme Court.

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Arlen Specter & judicial nominees:

• Specter vows fairness for Bush nominees | The Republican in line to head the Senate Judiciary Committee says President Bush's nominees for judgeships will get a fair hearing even if some candidates oppose abortion rights (Associated Press)
  
  
• Specter denies pro-choice litmus test | Sen. Arlen Specter, who set off a firestorm of controversy last week among conservatives who interpreted certain remarks as a warning to President Bush not to nominate pro-life judicial candidates, pledged to treat the president's choices fairly and quickly (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Too late about Arlen | The person most to blame for Specter being in a position to deep six President Bush's judicial nominees is President Bush (Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator)
  
  
• "A man of his word" | Listen to what Specter said (Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)
  
  
• Specter defends record on judiciary | The GOP senator who backs abortion rights counters opposition to his chairmanship (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Furor continues over Specter comments on nominees | Several influential conservative Republicans indicated yesterday that Sen. Arlen Specter, who is in line to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, has not succeeded in tamping down the furor he created last week when he appeared to warn President Bush not to select Supreme Court nominees who oppose abortion rights (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The Specter of GOP warfare | How did Arlen Specter become Republican Enemy No. 1? (Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Why the Specter flap matters | The assault from the right on the Pennsylvania Republican senator just elected to a fifth term is in fact serious, revealing, and possibly an early indicator of the latest attempt by conservatives -- after a generation of false starts -- to actually govern the country (Thomas Oliphant, The Boston Globe)
  
  

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