President Bush needs Hispanic votes. The nation now has over 35,300,000 Latinos -- most of them with roots in Mexico. His brother, Jeb, governor of Florida, is married to a Latina-American and has converted to Catholicism. Jeb helped to deliver Florida’s electoral votes, the ones that put George in office, even though he lost the general election. Allegedly, Gonzales wants the post. Even now, his staff suggests that he likes to be addressed as “Judge Gonzales.” He is conservative, antiabortion -- and Catholic. Two other possible candidates are Samuel Alito, judge of the appeals court in Newark, N.J. However, Alito is Italian-American as is Justice Antonin Scalia. Alito once clerked for Scalia and earned the nickname “Scalito.” Then, there is Miguel Estrada, perhaps a more reliable conservative than Gonzales. The hard-nosed conservatives don’t amount to that big a political block, however. It’s just that they’re louder and Bush is fearful of them. In any case, all three potential justices are Roman Catholics.