Christian Coalition of America's grassroots put a tremendous amount of effort into getting President George W. Bush's "strict constructionist" judicial nominees through, especially the efforts expended to get Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito and circuit court of appeals nominees confirmed. 

Unfortunately, we were not always successful, in that some highly qualified judicial nominees actually asked President Bush to withdraw their nominations because they could not afford to have their lives put on hold for years after they were nominated by the president and with the Senate Democrats filibustering their nominations, even when the Democrats were in the minority, as they were before this current Congress. 

Indeed, Miguel Estrada, an Hispanic American  --  who received the American Bar Association's highest qualified rating which for conservatives is hard to receive  -- asked that his nomination be withdrawn after years of waiting to have a vote on the Senate floor. 

So what is good for the goose is good for the gander some people say.  The Republican minority should very well copy some of the tactics which the Democrats have used while George W. Bush was president.  Barack Obama will now have a Democrat Senate with some 56 Democrat Senators and 2 liberal Independents (Sanders and Lieberman) and Obama may think that he has a mandate to nominate the most liberal-leaning judges in American history. 

However, he should be very cautious.  First, he ran as a centrist in the general election in a decidedly center-right country.  A very small minority of Americans classify themselves as liberal.  Obama sounded conservative when, for example, he promised 95% of Americans will receive tax cuts and many voters voted for him for reasons such as this.  Americans, by large margins, do not want judges legislating from the bench.  That is a major reason why there was an 8-seat turn-over in the Senate in 1994 from Democrat control to Republican control just two years after Bill Clinton became president. 

If Barack Obama does not want to suffer a severe rebuke by the American people as Bill Clinton did in 1994, he will nominate centrist judges for the circuit court of appeals and for the Supreme Court.  The American people will not tolerate judges who use foreign laws and United Nations mandates to make their decisions and who bypass state legislatures and their representatives in Congress to legislate left-wing decisions from the bench.   

The 42 Republican Senators need to emulate the tactics taken by Democrat Senators during the 8 years of the Bush presidency to ensure that no left-wing judges are put on either the Supreme Court or the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.