If this moron is the 2012 GOP nominee then the party is truly finished - it will clearly show that they've learned nothing.

Newt must want to be president so badly, that he will lead whatever parade of mouth-breathers, in order to raise himself a pile-o-cash. He knows that the public's memory is so short that nobody will remember this when he is trampling around Iowa next year or 2011. I will not forget how cynical and self-serving he is now and has been and will likely be in the future.

GOP: Hispanics? We don't need no steenking Hispanics!

This is absolutely awful and embarrassing for our country. The MSM is complicit in giving these guys a platform and stirring up such hate and division.

dockrocker,

absolutely right. Gingrich, Limbaugh, and now Tancredo, are 'playing' the media like one might play a violin, because, unfortunately, today's media needs to fill air time.

These low-lifes know the more outrageous their charges are, the more attention and air time they get.

and Newt, white and pure as the Christ-mas snow, is 100% All-American. he, of all people, would surely know what is UNamerican, he and his buddy in arms, Pat Buchanan

un-American is now another code word, like thug, for the N-word or various other racial derisions.

it'd be hysterical, if it weren't so sad, that these people who fought (and fight) equal rights tooth and nail, fall back on this "reverse discrimination" and "unamerican" crap as their modern method for attacking people of color

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much."

Newt Gingrich said that. I agree with the first part but not the second part. It is not very intellectual at all to take a Supreme court nominee's words completely out of context. It's not at all a sign of someone who thinks too much.

Actually, Gingrich is being anti-intellectual here. He's being lazy with his argument. He hasn't put much thought into it and hopes you don't either.

Actually, for Newt, she probably is "un-American." But I would like to know what he means by that. If someone can figure out how to get him to answer that question, he will probably make an even bigger fool of himself.

I'm increasingly inclined to think we should sit back and watch these morans (sic) have as much rope as they need and see how wisely they use it. This 'Sotomayor is a racist' crap is just that, crap, but I wonder if they know it? You have to pick your battles, and this doesn't seem like a hill to die on, even for the morans.

Newt Gingrich is a mushroom.

I have one question:

How can the discredited, immoral, loser Gingrich even show his face as someone who is criticizing any person on this earth? I know he has no shame, but how is he allowed to ask these questions without anyone asking him equivalent ones?

Oh. I forgot. They get away with anything because they say the MSM is "leftist." How dare anyone behave as though that lie is a lie.

Wow. You know Newt's gone off the deep end when John Cornyn is telling him to back off.

This is classic Gingrich. After pretending for a while to have cleaned up his act, he's finally reverted to form. More than anyone else in the Republican party, Gingrich practically invented the art of slash and burn politics in the late eighties, finally culminating in the impeachment (at the same time that he was having his own illicit affair). The country is tired of his brand of politics. The best he can hope for now is to join Coulter, Limbaugh, Cheney and the other under-medicated right-wing crackpots who couldn't get elected dog catcher.

A washed up politician with the morals of an alley cat, gets to go on t.v. whenever he wants and spout bullshit. When in the hell is the media gonna grow up?

Gingrich Kahn for President!

She turned me into a newt!

"True statement ... multiple marriages and affairs is WHAT'S AMERICAN!"

And shutting down the government to prove you're right.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR NEWT!!!

Newt, Newt, Teletubby baby, is desparately seeking attention; he never thought he would see a Black man become president before he did! We must be there for him as he works through this stages of grief and disbelief.

Having backward racist relatives in my family, not much surprises me...but I have to admit to getting alarmed over how wound up Newt, Rush & Tancredo are these last few days.

This is not healthy for our country and I'm appalled that more in the media aren't calling them out on it.

The dog whistles are too loud - they are trying to stir up violence.

This needs to be shut down before some nut job 'hears' them and takes action.

Any chance we can get Gingrich to appear on all news shows to represent the Republikkkans in all debates on this issue?

There are still some Hispanics, and even some women, who still consider themselves part of the party.

He's showing the best way to get GOP ID'ers down to single digits.

What's underarock's world view? What are the requirements now to speak for ...........whoever he is speaking for now.
Is the media this hard-up for content?

There's the old adage: "Nature abhors a vacuum"

That describes current GOP leadership and Newt, bless his heart, will (try to) fill the void.

Did Newton get into Rushs' medicine cabinet? if he starts fidgeting & rubbing his face all the time too, then there's your answer.
BTW, which drug is it that makes you obese?

I think Sotomayor should be confirmed, but this debate being forced by Gingrich (not a total idiot) and the Republicans is a good one for Democrats and liberals in general to have. It touches on a line of thought that Democrats and the Left in general are going to need to respond to quite often in coming years as the seeds of certain academic ideas sown over recent years come to fruition in the public sphere.

For the past thirty years or so, the Left in academia has developed a very strong postmodernist skeptical stance toward the ideals of neutrality, objectivity, secular liberalism, and universal fairness, and a parallel conviction that we must all admit prejudicial preference for 'our own' -- whatever identity subgroup we identify strongest with. This is sometimes called the 'philosophy of difference' and you can hear it ringing in Sotomayor's controversial comment. While it is an important intellectual exercise within academia to subject ideals of neutrality to skeptical inquiry, the result in the concrete world of realpolitik has become a political Left that is deeply skeptical about its own roots in the ideals of secular liberalism and universal fairness.

This is a Left that can be so cynical now as to support the seeds of tyranny and fascism so long as they are being sown by ethnic groups that declare themselves anti-Western, anti-science, anti-modernism, etc. Paradigm case in point: the support of the 1979 militant Islamic revolution in Iran by the supposed Left-wing critical theorist Michel Foucault. Foucault is a tremendous figure in Left academia whose influence spans a broad range of departments. Foucault's desire to overturn the Western liberal tradition outweighed his care of the consequences for women who would have to live under the brutal regime he cheered on.

This pattern is playing itself out again and again today and the Left is very often becoming neo-conservative in the sense of choosing the preservation of traditions and prejudicial disposition even when these are counter to liberal ideals.