Posted on 05/31/2009 12:07:28 PM PDT by AmericaTalks
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's pick to replace David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, will be confirmed. Nothing anyone can do or say can prevent that.
Republicans are falling all over themselves trying to determine whether it is in their best interest to make a show out of fighting her nomination. The infighting among conservatives escalated to a head this past week with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich calling her a racist, and former congressman Tom Tancredo comparing the organization La Raza, of which Sotomayor is a card carrying member, to the Ku Klux Klan without the white hoods.
Are these accusations and comparisons accurate? Should conservatives fight tooth and nail to prevent her confirmation when they know the votes are not there to stop it? Or is it political suicide for the GOP to go after this woman when Republicans are trying to court the Hispanic voter base?
Obama, for his part, says attempts to undermine her nomination by conservatives will fail "because Judge Sotomayor's 17-year record on the bench — hundreds of judicial decisions that every American can read for him or herself — speak far louder than any attack; her record makes clear that she is fair, unbiased and dedicated to the rule of law."
He claims that her comments that "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life", were taken out of context. Yet these were not off-the-cuff remarks. They were delivered as written in a 2001 speech at the University of California's Berkeley School of Law. Sotomayor made it quite clear what she meant.
Sotomayor's membership in La Raza should also be a cause for concern. La Raza has promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs and no immigration law enforcement by state and local police. La Raza as an organization may not reach the level of the KKK, but it certainly promotes rewarding those who have broken the law to enter this country.
And Sotomayor is an activist judge who believes in legislating from the bench. She said the "Court of Appeals is where policy is made." She's wrong , of course. It is the job of the judiciary to apply the Constitution to the law. Nothing more.
Sotomayor is also anti-Second Amendment. as a candidate for a position on the highest court in the land, she presents a tremendous danger to the nation our founding fathers established.
This has the GOP in a quandry.
True, Republicans are a party in disarray at the moment. They do need to reach out to the Latino community. Hispanics are generally Catholic, conservative, pro-life and pro-family. The GOP is afraid of risking the loss of a conservative constituent base it so desperately needs.
However, to sacrifice the same principles that most in the Hispanic community espouse for the sake of placating others would be a mistake that could cost Republicans in the long run.
If the Republicans are ever to return to prominence, they must return to the values that made them a great party in the first place. The only reaching out they need to do is to the conservatives they have disenfranchised and alienated for so long.
Sotomayor will not change the composition of the court. It is exchanging one liberal for another. But the principle of standing for what is right remains a valid one.
Republicans must oppose the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor.
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Props to Tancredo for calling La Raza (The Race) the Ku Klux Klan.
And La Raza is also an advocate of the Reconquista and Aztlan....the overthrow of parts of the USA to be returned to Mexicans
Sonia Sotomayor is a RACIST. A Hispano-Racist. Any less description of her...and you are probably a liberal
“This has the GOP in a quandary.”
I’m sure they’ll take the coward’s way out, as usual.
If we had enough Senators, we could stop this. But we don’t have the numbers.
Still, we need to oppose her.
It’s very sad how screwed up this country already is, and we are still only seeing the very beginning of what’s still to come in screw ups for the entire U.S. :(
If the GOP had any principles, they wouldn’t be in a quandary.Of course they should be fighting this nominee tooth and nail. STAND UP AND ACCOUNT FOR YOURSELVES YOU SPINELESS B@ST@ARDS!!!!!!!!!!
...GOP, cowards? I thought they were going to save us from the evil democrat socialists. A listening tour to set us straight on how we should keep electing them because this time they’re right. All us peons just don’t understand how it works in DC...
...There’s another word, starts with c, three letters, suckers is attached...
IMHO the Pubs should use her hearings to expose her position on the 2nd Amendment and La Raza’s racist nature, all the while saying at every opportunity “I know we don’t have the votes to stop her, but we have a duty to let the American people know what they are getting.” Then they should vote against her unanamously, and use it as an issue against Democrats running in swing districts/states in 2010.
I doubt they will, but that’s what they should do.
Since there is no backbone in our politicians as well as the vast majority of our citizens the best thing is to do nothing.
Let the left take over and ruin our country. Then and only then will people be able to grow a spine.
Then we can accomplish something when people can remember what they lost (freedom) and are then willing to do what is necessary to reclaim and preserve freedom and rights as citizens.
Then and only then.
the pubie party will do “bipartisanship” as usual.
“Since the vast majority of these were written by white men,”
Yes, and written at a time when Hispanics were living in mud huts....
They’ll probably settle on attacking Tancredo.
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