One group consulted was the Concerned Women for America, whose decision to oppose Miers last Wednesday became one of the final blows to help kill the nomination. Janet M. LaRue, the group's chief counsel, said it received a call from the White House on Saturday and liked what it heard.

"[Judge Samuel Alito] and Luttig have always been at the top of our list," she said in an interview. "We think either of them would be a supreme pick. There isn't a thing stealthy about them. They've got a long, proven record of constitutional conservatism."

In August of 2004, blogACTIVE, the editor's blog of PageOneQ, reported that the Chief Financial Officer of Concerned Women for America, Lee LaHaye was a gay man. LaHaye is the son of CWA's founders Timothy and Beverly LaHaye.

"I find it rather odd that a conservative President would turn to such a confused organization to vet his picks for the Supreme Court," said Michael Rogers, editor of blogACTIVE andPageOneQ. And the fact an organization with a gay man as it's Chief Financial Officer would approve of such far right wing judges is further proof of the dysfunction of the organization's agenda and its operation."

The group's counsel, Janet LaRue, expressed happiness with two of the three leading candidates reported on by the Washington Post, Judges Samuel A. Alito Jr. and J. Michael Luttig. According to the Post, Alito is nicknamed "Scalito" by those who find him similar to one of the court's most conservative members, Justice Antonin Scalia.