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GOP Moves to Tone Down Criticism of Sotomayor
Washington Post ^ | Friday, May 29, 2009; 2:31 PM | By Dan Eggen, Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane

Posted on 05/29/2009 4:42:37 PM PDT by lewisglad

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are rushing to contain racially tinged rhetoric in the debate over President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, fearing that attacks emanating from some conservatives opposed to appellate court Judge Sonia Sotomayor could damage GOP prospects among women and the rapidly growing Hispanic population.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today he was "uneasy" over allegations by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh that Sotomayor is racist.

Sessions, who lost a 1986 bid for a federal judgeship amid concerns over his own racial sensitivity, said Republicans should focus on Sotomayor's legal record to try to divine what sort of a Supreme Court justice she would make.

"I'm uneasy," Sessions said in a 30-minute interview in his office in the Russell Senate Office Building. "I don't think that's good rhetoric. The question is, has the judge gone too far or not, given the established law of the land?"

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also condemned the remarks by Gingrich and Limbaugh, noting that "neither one of these men are elected Republican officials."

"I think it's terrible," Cornyn said in an interview late yesterday with NPR's "All Things Considered." "This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent."

"I just don't think it's appropriate," he continued. "I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."

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To: lewisglad

“racially tinged rhetoric”? You have got to be kidding. Sotomayor makes a blatantly racist statement, and it is “racially tinged” to criticize it? And now Sessions is joining Cornyn in this ridiculous attempt to censor perfectly legitimate criticism.


41 posted on 05/29/2009 5:45:16 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Uncle Miltie

Does she have any kids? I just wonder. I’m not dissing folks without kids, but there’s always talk about the big perspective you get when you have kids. I have some, and I my experiences post are very different then pre-kids. Is that diplomatic enough?


42 posted on 05/29/2009 5:46:48 PM PDT by againstallhope
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To: lewisglad

43 posted on 05/29/2009 5:55:07 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Ah, I can still remember when Princeton had some good basketball teams, competetive football, some excellent wrestlers, and nothing to apologize for!


44 posted on 05/29/2009 5:56:43 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: lewisglad

I think that the GOP needs to “tone down” its criticism of Americans.


45 posted on 05/29/2009 5:56:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gibbs needs to be "exceedingly careful" when threatening the American people.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Leave the racist Latina alone. She’s allowed to be a bigot.

I'm offended at your bigoted reference to her being "allowed." Your allowance of her bigotry presumes a patriarchal dominance over her racism, reducing it to mere allowed bigotry and thereby denying it the fullest expression of her natural, narrow-minded discriminatory hate-filled racial bias. You, and people like you, are the reason she was victimized into becoming a racist in the first place. You should be ashamed.

46 posted on 05/29/2009 5:56:52 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: lewisglad
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today he was "uneasy" over allegations by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh that Sotomayor is racist.

I'm "uneasy" that our "elected officials" are spending so much time being "uneasy" about what others, who aren't elected officials, are saying and doing rather than focusing on what THEY should be saying and doing.

This is only about Rush and Newt, rather than Sotomayor, if Republicans spend their time fulfilling the plans of the Dems and their cohorts in the media by responding to what everyone other than Sotomayor has said and done.

47 posted on 05/29/2009 5:57:00 PM PDT by LucyJo ("Yep, son, we've met the enemy and he is us.")
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To: lewisglad
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are rushing to contain racially tinged rhetoric

Hilarious. The racially-tinged rhetoric came from her.

48 posted on 05/29/2009 5:59:03 PM PDT by Rocko (Mymindisaragingtorrent,floodedwithrivuletsofthoughtcascadingintoawaterfallofcreativealternatives.)
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To: lewisglad

The Pubes continue to disappoint. Are there any men of wisdom, resolve and stature left in the Republican party?

None that I can see.

Weaklings and cowards, unfit for office, who have a charge to protect our country, but because of dereliction, are party to destroying it.

I absolutely cannot believe I am witnessing the unraveling of my country before my very eyes.


49 posted on 05/29/2009 6:01:38 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: lewisglad
NatGOP -- trash. Forget them, they can feed their fancies of being relevant.

My money goes ONLY and DIRECTLY to qualified candidates.

50 posted on 05/29/2009 6:02:52 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5(SONY)|"Also sprach Telethustra"-NonValueAdded|Lk21:36)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
This is liberal mediaspeak...

Got that right. This is the Post covering for their candidate again. They're trying to create a norm against which anyone who falls may safely be called "racist." Never call a minority racist a racist - it's racism. I'm yawning.

51 posted on 05/29/2009 6:06:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Remember during our opposition to Harrist Myers, when Lindsey Grahamnesty told us to “shut up”?

More of the same.


52 posted on 05/29/2009 6:06:31 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I absolutely cannot believe I am witnessing the unraveling of my country before my very eyes.

Never the less, here we stand. No one seems to understand we are at war, we will either return to our Christian heritage, or we will live under Sharia law.

53 posted on 05/29/2009 6:14:36 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: lewisglad

GOP = spineless weasels


54 posted on 05/29/2009 6:37:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: lewisglad
Deballed, defanged, declawed and shaved naked.

Today's GOP!

55 posted on 05/29/2009 6:57:47 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: lewisglad
There will be no toning it down from me. That racist woman got caught making racist comments and she should not get a free pass. She should withdraw her nomination just like the Rats would require a GOP nominee to do.
56 posted on 05/29/2009 7:31:50 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama's a has-been that never was.)
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To: Noumenon
Cowards and scum.

What you said BUMP.

57 posted on 05/29/2009 7:33:26 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: lewisglad
Once again, Republicans can't stop themselves from running like scared bunny rabbits from the Democrat newsrooms. It was Republican cowardice that left Miguel Estrada twisting in the wind, and now that same cowardice again shows its ugly face as Republicans get all knock-kneed about calling a racist scumbag a racist scumbag.

Absolutely freaking pathetic.
Screw you, GOP. My checkbook remains slammed shut.

58 posted on 05/29/2009 7:37:17 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: lewisglad

What a bunch of pu**ies. I am so looking for another party. The GOP has seen the last dime from me.


59 posted on 05/29/2009 7:47:48 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Enoughofthissocialism

“I am so sick of these POS RINOs!!!!!!!”

No kidding. Next time the gutless wonders call you or send you a mailer seeking a donation, tell them to f**k off!


60 posted on 05/29/2009 7:50:28 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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