Looks like someone high up (perhaps the Grand Wizard) has come down on Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh about calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. First Newt backtracked on his remarks – almost, but not quite, renouncing the “r” word. Then, yesterday, Limbaugh sorta-kind-of recanted his use of the word.
Now we all know that they truly love calling her a racist, and they mean it to the depths of their little sour souls. So what’s the deal? Why the backtracking? Well it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that calling Sotomayor names is going to upset the Hispanic community. Not being anything remotely close to rocket scientists, I guess Gingrich and Limbaugh didn’t get it. So someone with a brain had to get hold of them and say, “Listen, knuckleheads, knock it off!”
It’s a real dilemma! The boys need to keep spewing racist garbage to keep the core conservatives happy. But they do so at the risk of alienating the Hispanic voters that the GOP (Gasping Old Party) has tried so hard to woo the last decade or so. They need those votes if they are to survive as a party! But at the same time, the core conservatives don’t give a hoot about the Hispanics. Just the other day Pat Buchanan spoke out on TV and said the Party wasn’t interested in racial diversity, didn’t believe in racial diversity. Equality either, if the truth be known.
So now the Gasping Old Party is between a rock and a hard place, hating Sotomayor but having to watch what they say against her. If they had a leg to stand on, they would quietly attack her judicial record. But since she is one of the most qualified judges to come along in quite awhile, that won’t work. So it’s back to personal attacks from the fun folks who brought you such terms as “Family Values.”
Watching the disintegration of this group of idiots is certainly fun!
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