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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The Republicans showed Sotomayor respect? Did you actually watch the same hearing as I did? If treating a Supreme Court nominee like a slow 4th grader is respectful, then by all means, Lindsay Graham is a true gentleman prince. Wow.
At least they got her name right, Mike Huckabee referred to her as "Maria Sontomayor."
As one observes the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the next Supreme Court Justice, it is clear Republicans on the committee are determined to be respectful, even admiring of what it means for her to be nominated. To be sure, some of the questions have been tough. Nevertheless, all seem to be aware that anything said or done that even remotely could be construed as not appreciating how important all of this is to the Hispanic community is simply unacceptable.
Patent nonsense.
Futhermore, a so called "respect for minorities" will not make much of a difference. As the high placement of Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice Rice shows, conservative ideology is more the issue than skin color. Minority voters trust white male Democrats over minority male or female Republicans everytime. It's the policies that matter.
In addition, the article itself demonstrates the Goldwater alone is not responsible for how minorities percieve the Republican party.
Like gay marriage, "political correctness", the Fariness Doctrine (which conservatives would benefit from in the long run), any minority that points out how much they are persecuted, islam as a whole instead of just the terrorists, taxes most Americans will never have to pay, "socialized medicine", well...you get the idea.
Try addressing the REAL problems that already exist instead of making up fake ones. No matter how many times you say the word "socialism", half the country still won't be able to afford medical care. Not addressing this is partly why you are out of power.
"The debate, for now, should begin and end with asking and answering how it is that we can remain true to our basic principles and grow among these key voter groups that are needed to win elections."
The assumption being, that your "basic principles" are antagonistic to minorities. Maybe the party should start by rethinking these principles.
It's not a rebranding issue. Stop being the party of racist, jingoist loons.
[T]he Sotomayor show was rich in historical significance. Someday we may regard it as we do those final, frozen tableaus of Pompeii. It offered a vivid snapshot of what Washington looked like when clueless ancien-régime conservatives were feebly clinging to their last levers of power, blissfully oblivious to the new America that was crashing down on their heads and reducing their antics to a sideshow as ridiculous as it was obsolescent.
The hearings were pure “Alice in Wonderland.” Reality was turned upside down. Southern senators who relate every question to race, ethnicity and gender just assumed that their unreconstructed obsessions are America’s and that the country would find them riveting. Instead the country yawned. The Sotomayor questioners also assumed a Hispanic woman, simply for being a Hispanic woman, could be portrayed as The Other and patronized like a greenhorn unfamiliar with How We Do Things Around Here. The senators seemed to have no idea they were describing themselves when they tried to caricature Sotomayor as an overemotional, biased ideologue.
Diversity isn't just a Democratic value. It actually grants an advantage in appealing to groups who feel excluded from the political process. As an active grassroots Democrat, the process I see is we try to figure out the agenda of the excluded group, and ask how to incorporate it into ours. That's how the agendas of racial minorities, organized labor, religious minorities etc. came to be so ingrained in Democratic thinking.
Republicans, by contrast, with the admission this is just how it looks from outside, don't ask how to incorporate someone else's agenda in theirs, or ask how they can help an excluded group. Instead, Republicans pick some part of the Republican agenda think think will have some appeal and push that, like promoting school vouchers to inner city blacks, or opposition to gay marriage to socially conservative Hispanics.
Leave them poor old white guys alone.
Stop hating white people.
Let's hate blue or green people instead. Them kind have no feelings to hurt whatsoever.
Let's get the blues and the greens and make them pay for their insolence. I say we kick them out of the country. Good riddance to blue and green rubbish.
When has a blue or green person ever done anything for you? Nothing. They only take and give nothing in return. Blues and greens, who needs them?
They also smell bad, like that blue goop in airplane toilets. Who needs that? They sicken me.
But leave the white people alone, they can't help it.
if you want to get independents to vote for you again...get rid of your base....instead of pandering to idiots.
Also, come up with ideas which a more than than making your biggest donors richer.
And electing people who are competent might help, too.
Other than that, you are doing just great! For Democrats.
Listen man:
The GOP Senators behaved like ignorant, despicable racists throughout the Sotomayor hearings.
The tone of their questions was consistently patronizing and disrespectful, the questions themselves predominantly dealt with the concern that Sotomayor would be unfair toward white people, and at least one Senator performed an actual racist impersonation ("You got some splainin to do!") on the Senate floor. It was an appalling spectacle.
The Republicans are doing badly with black, Latin, young voters because they are a party of racist warmongers whose entire motivation for being in office is to increase their own wealth and influence through government policy. It's not a marketing concern. You had the country for a few disastrous years, but people are waking up.
Anyone other than rich white men would be foolish indeed to vote for any Republican. The Democrats are no dreamboats either, not by a long shot, but the Republicans are murderous greedy lunatics. They must be driven into sobbing defeat and never allowed to run the country again.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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