Thread: The GOP Must Challenge Sonia Sotomayor’s Appointment If It

A New Jersey Reader Says The GOP Must Challenge Sonia Sotomayor’s Appointment If It Expects To Energize Its Dwindling Base
From: J. Richard Bert (e-mail him)

Is there anyone alive dumb enough to believe that if the Republicans challenge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, the party will lose the Hispanic vote?

What Hispanic vote are they talking about? The one we don’t have?

For eight years, President George W. Bush pushed amnesty. He appointed a Mexican Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales; a Cuban HUD Secretary, Mel Martinez and a Cuban Commerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez. In fact, Bush had the most diverse staff in presidential history. [Bush Is Opening Doors With Diverse Cabinet, by Susan Page, USA Today, December 9, 2004]

That’s not all.

When Bush’s would-be successor, John McCain, started pandering to Hispanics, Barack Obama was a Columbia undergraduate.

Here is what the Republicans got in exchange for their years of kissing Hispanic butts: a big fat zero.

The only strategy that might make sense would be if the Republicans, as the opposition party, go after Sototmayor to expose her as a left-wing radical with a pre-determined agenda.

There’s a chance that vigorous opposition might energize the depleted GOP base. But to sit back and let the Democrats have their way on Sotomayor without even token resistance is too depressing to contemplate.

Bert’s previous letters about what he views as amnesty’s remote chances during Barack Obama’s first term and Governor Jon Corzine’s moral turpitude are here and here.

http://vdare.com/letters/tl_052809.htm

I don't think the GOP should oppose her based on her being Hispanic (and hoping for Hispanic support) but they should stand against her affiliation/ruling on RIAA, her potential prior rulings against IT (which could compromise radio prodcasting and internet use), her global "leaning" to business interests and her tendency to support and benefit politicians (she was appointed by G.W. Bush in '98, then Clinton). Not to mention her racist statements.

snakeoil: WELCOME, welcome to ALIPAC.

What a GREAT post, Thank You

Neomi Rao, George Mason University, Assistant Professor of Law
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/ ... ogram.aspx

Everyone needs to listen to this Constitutional School George Mason's Law Professor.

George Mason wrote the Virginia Constitution in which "We the People" obtained our United States Constitution from, I believe.

Before Sotomayor's nomination can be approved by the Senate it must pass the Senate Judiciary Committee. And there must be at least one Republican vote in favor. If we can get all the Republicans who are on the Senate Judiciary Committee to say an absolute "No" to this appointment it will die in committee.

Start calling the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee. They are:


Jeff Sessions
Ranking Member, R-Alabama

Orrin G. Hatch
R-Utah

Charles E. Grassley
R-Iowa

Jon Kyl
R-Arizona

Lindsey Graham
R-South Carolina

John Cornyn
R-Texas

Tom Coburn
R-Oklahoma

Sotomayor's Gun Control Positions Could Prompt Conservative Backlash

Judge Sonia Sotomayor could walk into a firestorm on Capitol Hill over her stance on gun rights, with conservatives beginning to question some controversial positions she's taken over the past several years on the Second Amendment.

Earlier this year, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee joined an opinion with the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Second Amendment rights do not apply to the states.

A 2004 opinion she joined also cited as precedent that "the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05 ... -backlash/

Over 80% want the border secured. From the Post below 47 of 535 know we need to fix citizenship. Where is the Latino Sotomayor on this issue? What is her record on deportation and releasing immigrants into our society who broke American Laws or Immigration Laws?

So 1/11 of Congress wants a more secure country and are not afraid of any voting block. The is a beginning! But this Latino is for the fight ahead for Obama's side of AMNESTY!

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