Posted on 05/26/2009 5:52:28 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Conservative activists are outspoken in their opposition. But Republican senators who will actually vote on her nomination offer muted responses. Some think the party has a chance to reach Latino vote.
BY PETER WALLSTEN and RICHARD SIMON
Reporting from Washington -- Rush Limbaugh called her a "reverse racist." The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network said she was an activist with a "personal political agenda" and should be blocked from the Supreme Court.
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The Republican senators who will actually vote on her were not following the activists' script.
Instead, GOP senators offered muted, sometimes admiring, responses, and seemed to be taking their cues from a quieter group of voices within the party cautioning that to oppose the country's first Latina Supreme Court nominee would amount to political suicide.
Moreover, some party strategists are telling GOP senators that to attack Sotomayor is to waste an opportunity for Republicans to appear welcoming and repair damage from recent policy debates in which conservative support for restricting immigration turned off many Latino voters.
"A lot of Republicans are worried that [fighting the Sotomayor nomination] could be the last straw when it comes to the party's ability to reach the Hispanic community," said Robert de Posada, a Latino GOP strategist who said he was advising Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Republicans are in a very awkward position."
Lionel Sosa, a Texas-based Republican ad maker who designed Latino outreach for Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush, said that opposing Sotomayor "would be one more nail in the Republicans' image coffin in terms of Latino voters."
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"As a Republican, I would take it that these people are anti-Latino. The worst thing the Republicans can do is oppose her."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Oh man. That’s good.
Time for Republicans to stop letting others make their decisions for them. Hispanics don’t like our opposition to a radical Leftist Judge, screw them. Grow a spine Republicans.
They better unwind their panties and really really look at this choice before getting off the fence.
White guilt on steroids!
The GOP is like an abusive husband.
They better unwind their panties and really really look at this choice before getting off the fence.
Right. Just like being anti-Obama means you hate black people.
This is political extortion.
ROFL
Last straw issues will be the back bone of this Republican group.
They die on the vine without money. So , if they won’t do what we want. Let them wither an go to seed.
Our’s or theirs, without support they’er out, They all want to be in.
The GOP is reading this - let them know
This is thier test to separate the men from the boys, if the vote this racist in, the Republican party is finished. Folding like a cheap camera is getting to be thier motto!
Exactly.
Exhibit A: Colin Powell
Exhibit B: Arlen Specter
etc
This Republican strategist says that standing up for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law will attract FAR more votes than not doing so ever could!
It is the rotting corpse of what was once a great party.
Now, it is merely a distraction from the important work of forming some new entity that is sufficiently viable that it is worth supporting going forward. Until then, I have no party.
I would think it would be political suicide not to oppose her. They will probably get a heck of a lot more votes if they do oppose her.
then YOUR strategy isn't ****ing working is it?
Thank you.
Their base is mad that they are turning "Bush" in all their policies so this nominee is to get conservatives angry and provide red meat for the left.
So predictable.
The more important fight right now is over socialized medicine.
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