The courts are high on the list of major objectives. Nothing has so corrupted the institutions of government, and undermined the right of the American people to choose their own laws and policies, as the intervention of judges to over-rule elected officials and impose their own preferences under the dishonest pretense that they are "interpreting" these laws and following the constitution.
One of the reasons the United States has lost control of its own borders and is unable to keep out millions of illegal immigrants is that courts -- especially the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- bend over backward to find flimsy excuses to prevent illegal aliens from being sent back where they came from.
One of the reasons it is so hard to get rid of racial quotas, despite the fact that the majority of the American people are against them, is that the Supreme Court keeps trying to finesse the issue by pretending that preferences for some is compatible with equality for all, as prescribed by the 14th Amendment.
We do not need liberal judges or conservative judges. We need judges who follow the laws and the constitution. And we need to get such judges confirmed by the Senate, without ideological litmus tests based on abortion or any other political issue. This is one of those islands that cannot be by-passed if we want to preserve the right of Americans to govern themselves.
Above all, we need to survive, because no other rights mean anything if we don't survive. It is a tragic farce that we are waiting to see what the United Nations has to say about our need to stop Saddam Hussein from developing nuclear weapons. That is another island that has to be taken, regardless of what some free-loading windbags and petty despots say at the U.N.
The Republicans have just hit a triple. The question is whether they will score or die on third.