In the political world, social conservatives have been very suspicious of McCain, but not suspicious enough to desert him. Thus, conservative groups like the Judicial Confirmation Network are running ads that say "choosing the right justices is critical to America."

"We don't know who Barack Obama would choose, but we know this: He chose as one of his first financial backers a slumlord now convicted on 16 counts of corruption. Obama chose as an associate a man who helped to bomb the Pentagon," the Judicial Confirmation Network ad says.

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"There is no single issue on which the next president, by himself, will have any greater impact than the Supreme Court," said Wendy Long, counsel to the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, which has been running television advertisements in key battleground states.

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Also on Thursday, the Judicial Confirmation Network began airing an issue ad in some areas that are key to the presidential race.

The television spot does not mention either presidential candidate, but it suggests that a more liberal judicial appointment to the Supreme Court would jeopardize the country's values of liberty, equality and inalienable rights.

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The Judicial Confirmation Network, which aired an ad featuring Jeremiah Wright, is up with a new one that focuses solely on its central issue of judges.

The ad is airing in a $250K buy covering the state of Ohio as well as Pittsburgh and northern West Virginia for a week, I'm told.

Like other independent groups, this one seems to have backed off the harsh attacks on Obama. The new ad doesn''t mention him

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The Judicial Confirmation Network focuses minds . . .

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. . . The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network started running television advertisements today in Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia reminding voters that electing Barack Obama would likely shift the balance on the Supreme Court toward the left.

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We haven't heard as much about judicial appointments in this election as we did in 2004. Perhaps the financial crisis has removed that from the front of most voters' minds, but the Judicial Confirmation Network wants to remind people that the next President will choose more than just an approach to fixing the financial meltdown . . .

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The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network is running this ad in Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Like a video released a few weeks ago by the conservative Catholic group Fidelis, the ad tells voters that there are more important concerns than the economy. The difference between now and 2004 is that cultural conservatives appear to be much less receptive to that message due to their economic woes. That's a big part of the reason that white Catholics who attend church weekly are now evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama.

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