Tancredo: Sotomayor Is Member Of "Latino KKK"
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), who spent his career in Congress calling for a moratorium on immigration, appeared on CNN to lambaste Sotomayor for belonging to a group whose name would translate as "The Race," made the false claim that La Raza has the motto, "All for the race, nothing for the rest," and bashed it as being "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses."
The KKK without the hoods or the nooses? Um, those hoods and nooses do make a really important difference!
By the way, a literal translation is "The Race" (according to their Web site, other possibilities include "the people" and "the community") and in the full linguistic context it refers essentially to advancing the civil rights and economic opportunities of Latinos. As a comparison, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People does not propose to oppress non-blacks, and the American Jewish Committee doesn't aim to keep the Gentiles down.
Another group called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has its own strong statement, accusing her of belonging to "a racist organization called 'The Race.'" Said ALIPAC president William Gheen: "The US Supreme Court is no place for brown or Hispanic supremacists like Sonia Sotomayor."
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Why aren't Democrats quoting Alito to counter the "racist statements" charges and quoting GEORGE FUCKING W. BUSH for the "empathy" charge, and why aren't they quoting Dead Man Running For President Thompson for the "dignity of the process"?
Why are the Democrats such fucking LOSERS?!!!!
May 28, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think they're letting the crazies set the tone.
So McConnell can then be asked: do you think La Raza is the same as the KKK?
May 28, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously. Tom Tancredo? The Colorado GOOPer who was too chickenshit to run for re-election to his House seat?
WTF is he doing hanging around? Bird-dogging with Cheney and Noot? Hey, when is Tom DeLay coming back???
May 28, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
DeLay has been around lately. he was goign after Pelosi just last week somewhere.
May 29, 2009 2:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ummm, you were aware that she's going to get confirmed regardless of how long the wingnuts hold their breath or how hard they stamp their little feet, right?
May 28, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please don't .... I want to expand the Democratic party but the idea of these idiots turning blue ... I could do without.
May 28, 2009 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't worry, they'll turn red and pop a vein way before blue happens.
May 28, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, she was, indeed, on a fast track to confirmation, regardless.
So ask yourselves: if everyone beyond a 5 year-old retarded child could figure out that a wholesale attack on Hispanics of every nationality is political suicide today... why are they doing it?
Another question: have we ever seen any evidence that the GOP acts: [a] without having a coordinated agenda; [b] "rogue"? Uh-unh.
I read the "what if?" article by Nate Silver yesterday, speculating on how the GOP could win the WH with no Hispanics (interesting, but ultimately only theoretical), and it got me to thinking about what he coined "Operation Gringo". What motive could the Republic Party possibly have, for deliberately pissing-off the Latinos?
One possibility: if all they have left is whites, failing their broadening their appeal (not gonna happen; their "message" has, at long last, been trumped by the reality of who they are and what they do... thank God!), it's imperative that they fluff every last white, in that sector of extreme whiteness that is still willing to support them. No room here for passivity; if these are "20 percenters", then that means that as of now, 20% theoretically will stay on board... no room to let them stray.
This is the most intense pump-the-base operation in political history. The good news is that it betrays totally that they've already written-off Hispanics as a lost cause.
Astute observers have noted in the past, how people like Karl Rove were running an under-the-radar anti-Hispanic operation, with all the voter suppression and anti-immigrant efforts of the GOP. All the talk, e.g., about "What part of 'illegal'..?" (etc.) was nothing but a dog-whistle to crackers who hate folks with brown skin, period, and had nothing to do with immigration, per se. The only difference between that, and their current "Operation Gringo", is that now, it's overt. They're flipping all the cards, and going for broke.
Unlike Silver's daydreaming, I do not believe you can get away with that, if only because other groups, plus tons of whites who are NOT 20 percenters, are not likely to vote their skin color. And according to the last two elections, the citizens of this country have grown a bit more enlightened than perhaps the GOP would like them to be.
That genie's not going back in the bottle. Twenty percent will keep you funded; it will not put you back in the majority.
May 29, 2009 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, have you watched Olbermann this week? Or read TPM, for that matter?
Calm down, then Google. Seriously.
May 28, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chill out, sit back and watch the GOP implode into their deranged lunacy!
May 28, 2009 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Patience, Grasshopper.
Give 'em enough rope to hang themselves. This is just the beginning of the next phase of the Republican implosion. Enjoy the show.
May 28, 2009 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! Just saw mk3872's response. A little mind-melding going on here.
May 28, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe yes, maybe no.
See my long-winded brain emission, above. Note where it explains that the GOP is finally aware that they cannot possibly broaden their appeal, simply by "messaging better"; they would have to change who they are and how they do business, to have wider appeal than the 20 percenters.
That just ain't gonna happen. Because who they are runs counter to the best interests of the people of this country. In the past, they were able to mask this with propaganda, distractions and wedge issues. No more.
Maybe "implode" is not the accurate description, however. If, as I've speculated, their immediate goal is to hold that 20% solid and continue to be funded by them, and just tread water TFN, their long-term goal is to ride it out, until Americans eventually exhibit their famous amnesia.
This is the amnesia that allowed them to bring Nixon (of all people!) back in 1968, and elect Bush II on the heels of a highly-successful Clinton Administration: "Let's give the other party a chance, for awhile!" Sometimes, we are nothing, if not a nation of borderline Idiots.
Goopers are counting on this. By the time they can elect another one to the WH, or re-take Congress, they are hoping that we'll all forget how they went to all-out war with people of color (and of course, "Operation Gringo" will be erased from all their re-marketing, at that time).
May 29, 2009 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow... just... wow.
Hispanic supremacist?
Tom Tancredo?
And they are smearing a legitimate civil rights organization?
Pinch me.
May 28, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
In NM, NCLR and its affiliates help communities from Head Start to youth programs to career services. Yeah, it sounds supremacist to me.
If they are attacking La Raza, they aren't going to be gaining any favors from Hispanics, especially in the SW. Even Arizona could start to sway away from the Republicans, maybe. Not a good strategy....
May 28, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Arizona would have been in play last year where McCain not on the GOP ticket.
May 28, 2009 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, that's one major defamation suit Tancredo just walked himself into. Oh man oh man, I hope they bring it, because no way is New York Times v. Sullivan going to get him out of it.
May 28, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL, lemme see, if I were defending the goopers in such a suit, I'd simply remind the court that he said "WITHOUT the hoods and nooses". Because without the hoods and nooses, the KKK is nothing but insurance salesmen and general store clerks, whining to each other about Them... and I don't think any of us would give a crap what the KKK ever said or did, if that were all there was to them.
And if given the opportunity to let a wingnut walk on a technicality like that, they would. I'm pretty sure the courts are wired for them.
May 29, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
La Raza has been around for about 40 years and is not extreme. Tandcredo is a failed politician who went nowhere in the Republican presidential rate. Part of Tancredo's rage is probably due to the strong support of immigration rights by the church he left (Catholic).
May 28, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Brown or Hispanic supremacists"?
They can't help themselves, can they?
I tend to think that this kind of bleating hyperbole from the insane-asylum inhabitants (otherwise known as conservative activists) will force Republicans to get this confirmation over ASAP. The damage is being done now.
May 28, 2009 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
ummm, yeah! Why doesn't he just compare them to the Nazis, you know - without the whole genocide thing...
May 28, 2009 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I mean seriously. WOW.
The Hispanic vote is becoming crucial for the GOP and they are alienating it... how can anyone call a moderate civil rights organization equivalent to the KKK? Exactly how much do they want to burn in order to choke Obama with the fumes?
May 28, 2009 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 28, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
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May 28, 2009 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
What do you mean "we," honky?
May 28, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
(paging Godwin)
I know of a certain other time in history when a group of people were called a pestilence...
The sad part is that buried in your INSANE screed is a point about enforcing existing employment laws and requiring businesses to pay for the health care of illegal immigrants. Those, I am all for.
But the rest of it is horseshit. Peddle it elsewhere.
May 28, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh, RedState is that way. And I'm sexing up your daughter. (I'm a brown bear! From another country!)
May 28, 2009 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have often honestly wondered what kind of lives paranoid people like this must be leading, when they possess this much deadly fear of Carlos the gardener, who's across the street, trimming the hedges on the house these morons can't afford to live in, themselves...
May 29, 2009 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Without the hoods or the nooses...or the lynchings...or the cross burnings...
"Hispanic Supremacists" is the funniest thing I've heard all week. I, for one, look forward to serving our new Brown overlords.
May 28, 2009 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the joke, right? Does someone have a countdown clock when we Caucasians are no longer the majority in the U.S. Any day now? At which point, perhaps Tancredo and his crew will be fighting for affirmative action.
May 28, 2009 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
... and without all the bigots.
May 28, 2009 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another step towards becoming the Hispanic and Latino community's very own Jesse Helms. I agree with NC Steve - La Raza should go beyond the indignant statement they'll no doubt put out shortly. They should sue his ass.
May 28, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tancredo is the best thing to happen to the Democratic Party to show to Hispanics that the Republicans are entirely aligned against them, whether legal or not, whether in the U.S. since the 1500s or not, whether they agree with Republican's stated values or not.
Tancredo et al. should just keep shooting their mouth off, and Hispanics who moved to the Republicans because of specific issues that where the Dems conflict with their moral beliefs (choice, contraception, death penalty, whatever), may find that aligning themselves with a party that simply thinks all Hispanics are dangerous is probably not the right move.
Thanks, Tom!
May 28, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, but that's cynical as hell.
My concern isn't for the Democratic Party - my concern is that his opinion reflects that of a hell of a lot of his and others' constituents, and that is inherently a bad thing. Who cares about the politics?
May 28, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to care about politics if you care about what the government does.
Remember, this guy got elected and a lot of the people he is talking to don't hear much more than his side. The more idiots like him they elect, the harder it becomes to get government to do the things needed.
Given that demographics are political destiny the next thing we know, the Republicans will be claiming they were for immigration all along and Tancredo was a Democrat provocateur. I don't know what kind of bubble or echo chamber the Republicans are in -- but it's not working for them.
May 28, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh. Way to blow the Latino vote for a generation, dude. How on earth did these idiots ever get into power?
May 28, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tancredo better chill - the way demographics are going we are all going to be members of LA RAZA soon enough.
Such a stupid comment. Pursuing equality like La Raza and the NAACP do is generally seen as the antithesis of trying to repress all efforts at equality like the KKK's mission statement.
Anyway, from one gringo to another Tom, learn to say the following:
Viva La Raza! Viva Sotomayor!
May 28, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
To me, it's about the fear of a brown planet. Plain and simple.
May 28, 2009 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Surely she must also be linked somehow to ACORN, no?
end: rolling eyes
May 28, 2009 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a fast track to irrelevancy. I guess it's the Phoenix Strategy for the GOP, burn it to the ground and hope something rises from the ashes.
May 28, 2009 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tancredo's recent statement is excellent news!! For the GOP!!!
May 28, 2009 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
The GOP is relentless and the MSM eat up their garbage like it was candy.
The GOP noise machine has led the press to focus on 2 or 3 things that the GOP wanted them to focus on that she is empathetic, racist and not so smart.
They have once again controlled the debate because the MSM and Democrats are too weak to call them out for exactly what they are: pathetic, degrading and sore losers.
May 28, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The MSM is not weak... it is complicit.
The Democrats are pushing back. What do you think TPM is doing, among other left-leaning blogs.
The Democrats have almost no place in the MSM except as target dummies for right wing insanity.
I think tying the Dem response to presence in the MSM is wrongheaded.
May 28, 2009 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it were not for the MSM, the GOp would be gone already. The MSM has them on life support. It's time to let them go. It's over.
May 29, 2009 2:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, but you're wrong. She's going to be confirmed. And the GOP will sink further into irrelevancy, as their share of the Latino and female votes continues to shrink.
As the kids say, EPIC FAIL.
May 29, 2009 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
What seems crazy to us is really just the natural progression of movement conservatism's bullshit rhetoric, i.e. if someone believes in "reverse racism," then you're, eventually, going to get hilarious quotes like this.
May 28, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the sad thing is that this is exactly what CNN was hoping for; it isn't a coincidence that Tancredo was on their air last night, too. They hope he says some crazy shit so they can re-run it all night and drive up ratings.
May 28, 2009 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
La Raza is the KKK without the nooses and hoods?
That's like saying the Boy Scouts are the Army, just without the guns and bullets.
I think the Democrats should "rope-a-dope, like Ali v. Foreman. Let them wear themselves out attacking her for being extrmist, leftist, racist, pilonidal cyst (the grievous medical problem that kept Limpbaugh out of service during Viet Nam). They will alienate whatever hispanic support they have. Meanwhile, Sonia will be confirmed anyway. She's just too damned qualified not to, and it only takes 1 or 2 Republican crossovers to invoke cloture. And since there are 7 or 8 (correct me if I'm wrong) Republicans in the Senate NOW who voted for her as appeals court judge, that shouldn't be too hard to get. Meanwhile, the Republicans, after their foot stamping and fuming lose another fight to Obama.
May 28, 2009 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is at least one current Member of the US House of Representatives who is a former head of La Raza. The comparision to the NAACP and the American Jewish Committee is quite accurate.
The Senate Republicans have lost complete control of situation and will pay a high price for it next year. This will get even uglier.
May 28, 2009 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let them talk and talk and talk! The Hispanic community is paying attention and they will remember this.
May 28, 2009 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tom Tancredo, Mr. Miami, really....
What the hell is going on with these guys. Might as well go all in - where is David Dukes?
I love Rick's brick face when he starts into the KKK slant. Priceless.
May 28, 2009 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Rush
May 29, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is appalling. How soon Tancredo forgets the countless atrocities committed by the KKK against blacks in the name of white supremacy. The fact that he was allowed to spout such nonsense on CNN again proves how tone deaf the MSM is when it comes to the plight of minorities in America. I'm sure he'll be invited back for more tomorrow on even more networks.
May 28, 2009 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
DNC needs to store all these outlandish bashings from the extreme right for the 2010 and 2012 elections! Don't they know that the latino community is the biggest growing minority voting block. Republicans continue to leave in denial of the changes that are taking place in our country.
May 28, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Rick Sanchez dares call him a friend!
May 28, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, "La Raza" in Spanish is used as an idiom, meaning "the people" -- when Raul Yzaguirre, its founder, pointed this out to John McLaughlin, all the latter could say was "oh, I wasn't aware of that" - after having accused Yzaguirre of being a racist.
May 28, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a case of the Right being scared shitless of the changing landscape of our country. We just voted a Black president, homosexuals are being accepted, the Latino community is growing exponentially all over the country. It sure isn't the old white man's country any more! The sooner the Republicans realize that, the better their odds of becoming relevant again. And no, a token appointment of a hip black man to head the RNC does not count!
May 28, 2009 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
A hip black man appointed head GOOPer? Wow, when did they dump Michale Steele?
May 28, 2009 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's hip to the jive, you turkey. For shizzle.
May 29, 2009 1:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
He be da' man, I heard.
May 29, 2009 3:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think Tancredo is confusing the National Council of La Raza with the boogie man of armed hispanics who want to drive anglos out of former Spanish owned areas of the US.
Try this Google Image Search for la raza to see some of the fear mongering.
Here are a few crazys it turns up: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
May 28, 2009 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're giving this cat way too much credit. Really.
What's more likely - that he was confused by what he saw on a Google Image search, or that he's just a racist?
May 28, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Many on the right think National Council of La Raza is dangerous organization. Here is Michelle Malkin:
May 28, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I stopped at "Michelle Malkin", bro. Sorry.
May 28, 2009 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her bullshit is analogous to saying that the Mother Theresa gives "mainstream cover" to freaks like Rev. Phelps because they are both "christian" activists after-all.
But hey, what do you expect form a racist freak like Malkin who openly states that the Japanese internment camps during WWII was totally cool and the right thing to do?
May 28, 2009 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's a Puerto Rican from NY. WTF does she know about the Aztlan Movement or Chicano sentiments beyond coming out of poverty.
May 28, 2009 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is rhetorical. But feel free to answer in 1200 words or less if you need to kill some time.
May 28, 2009 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, she has that hot latin blood pulsing through her veins. Plus, she likes pig's feet and beans. And tortillas. So of course she's down with the "Free Aztlan" movement.
May 29, 2009 1:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here is World Nut Daily:
with a map showing what parts of the US will be incorporated into Aztlan.May 28, 2009 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Any idea what their immigration policy will be? Good weather, good music, good food? Sounds a whole lot better than the Midwest.
May 29, 2009 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) in Human Events:
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May 28, 2009 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
From Wikipedia:
So is Tancredo seriously suggesting the Ford Foundation, Citigroup and Wal-Mart give money to a "brown" version of the KKK?
Really?
May 28, 2009 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
So they are like the KKK without the lynchings, house/church burnings and beatings? Please don't anybody stop these Republicans, this is making for great ads in 2010 and 2012 in the hispanic communities.
Obama sure does make politics fun again.
May 28, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, only without the hoods and the nooses. The rest, I assume, he thinks that they perpetrate, including:
- murder, including assassinations and lynching (it's not only done with nooses, folks!)
- assault and maiming
- burning crosses
- voter intimidation
- destruction of property
I could list more, but I have other things to do this week.
May 28, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget church bombing. I'll bet La Raza is totally for church bombing.
Your list (with my addition) is one of the reasons they'd stomp his ass in that defamation suit I really want them to file. Talk about your reckless disregard for truth or falsity.
I really hope they're listening. Opportunities like this to simultaneously strike a blow against Tancredo's brand of inflammatory hate mongering spefically and for civilized political discouse generally don't come along every day.
No doubt, both sides would have well-supplied litigation funds, and while the trial was ongoing, the insane rhetoric would increase, but, after the damage award hits his ass, maybe some of them will think twice about whether spewing out inflammatory lies is really a wise way to make a buck.
May 29, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
What next, attack her for being a woman?!
May 28, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
From a strategic standpoint, the Dems really should pounce on this opportunity. Not for Sotomayor - she'll be fine. But to secure more hispanic votes. Simply replay the "KKK without the hoods or the nooses" bit in a spanish-translated ad, and go from there. This is such low-hanging fruit, I can't imagine this doesn't come back to haunt Tancredo and the Republicans next year. What a gift for Dems. Wow.
May 28, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Man, o'man...If the right-wing didn't exsist what the hell would we do with the term "FREAKIN NUTS"?
May 28, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please keep these people on the TV.
May 28, 2009 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Point of information: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was...are you ready for this...
ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LA RAZA IN HOUSTON!!!
Did any of these pontificating asshats say a damned thing when he was nominated? BTW, did any Democrats even bring it up? And the Republicans wonder why they have a bad image in the minority community.
May 28, 2009 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Confirmed. Hilarious! If Repubs don't throw Tancredo under the bus for this, they're stupider than I ever imagined.
May 29, 2009 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm waiting to hear Rush come out and defend Tancredo. This needs to walk real slow through the MSM news cycle. I can't believe we got this gift on a Thursday! We can talk about this all weekend!!!
May 29, 2009 2:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
"The US Supreme Court is no place for brown or Hispanic supremacists people like Sonia Sotomayor."
Fixed.
May 28, 2009 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The US Supreme Court is no place for brown or Hispanic people like Sonia Sotomayor."
FIXED. That is what he truly meant to say.
May 28, 2009 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really have no idea how a person of color, such as myself, could be a Republican anymore. How could you line up with people like this?
May 28, 2009 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
The GOP reminds me a lot of the Lord of the Flies these days.
What does one need to do to qualify to be a GOP talking head? Just be as crazy as you can, and you can make it as a Republican spokes person.
By the end of this confirmation process, the 14% of Hispanics who actually did vote GOP last election will switch sides.
May 28, 2009 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does one need to do to qualify to be a GOP talking head?
Apparently, be a former public official.
May 29, 2009 8:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's please recognize all this absurd posturing by Tancredo, Malkin, Limbaugh, et al, for what it is. No one in the Republican Party thinks Sotomayor is in any danger of being rejected by the Senate. Keep in mind that her conformation will not upset the ideological balance of the Court. Notice that no sitting members of Congress are going off the deep end here. They are letting nut case media proxies do it for them.
Why?
Here's why: this is all a dress rehearsal for the time when Obama appoints someone with a really progressive bent, or for the potential scenario when he appoints a successor to one of the right-wing justices, such as Scalia. If one of the Gang of Four (Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito) should retire and give Obama a chance to swing the Court's ideological balance back to the Center, THAT is when the right wing will fight this battle in earnest. The ridiculous posturing over Sotomayor is nothing more than a rehearsal designed to test out what works and what won't.
May 29, 2009 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's no strategy here. It's gut reaction. If there's any strategy, it looks like 'death by a thousand paper cuts', or maybe just 'throw everything at anything Obama does until something sticks'.
Under the circumstances, the smart strategy would be to gracefully confirm Sotomayor. Then they'd have some credibility later on when they pull out the big guns against a true liberal or someone who tips the balance of power. At this pace, the public will go numb to the shrill cries of "wolf" when there is none. But, the wingnuts simply can't help themselves.
And that points to something else. The fact that elected officials aren't saying much tells you that there's no clear/strong leadership out of the Republican party. Wingnuts of their party are left to run amok. No strategy, just a party in disarray.
May 29, 2009 12:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
If I were a mole trying to destroy the Republican party from within this is the strategy I would propose - claim that a hispanic civil rights group is the same as the KKK, and that a female hispanic circuit court judge with impeccable credentials and a centrist judicial philosophy was a racist "brown supermacist." Nice work, Tom. Your check is in the mail.
May 29, 2009 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
If this is a dress rehearsal, they need more practice.
May 29, 2009 8:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am a blue eyed blonds of Scottish descent and my husband is a blue eyed blonde of Danish descent. We both belong to the NAACP and La Raza. Neither of them are racist organizations, you do not have to be black or hispanic to belong to either of them as for Tancredo's notion that the motto of La Raza is Everything for the race and nothing for anyone else, he is either a liar or an idiot and I have no idea which. I realize his political career is built on throwing incindiary remarks but his notion of the motto is just a lie. I don't know Sotomayor but if the Republicans expect to derail her with her experience on the bench they need to come up with facts not fantasies. So far I see a very centrist judge (I would like to see a more liberal one myself) I have read about 7 of her decisions they are well reasoned. She has heard over 350 cases and has has only 3 reversed on appeal. Very good statistics. So far she sounds pretty good to me. The GOP has nothing and now they are resorting to outright lies, to they think we are so stupid we will believe them. We have seen then for the last 30 years and it isn't a pretty picture. Now they hand us lies. What idiots.
May 29, 2009 1:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
The National Council for La Raza is so racist, yet the Republican party's 2008 presidential nominee, spoke at its 2008 convention. I guess, U.S. Senator John McCain likes to "pal around" with racists.
http://www.campaign.com/2008/campaign_trail/mccain/nclr_mccain_7.14.08.html
May 29, 2009 2:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Priceless!!!!
May 29, 2009 2:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bravo!
May 29, 2009 3:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh my! Another Republican who pals around with terrorists
...look who spoke at the 2006 Conference: Karl Rove! http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/40591
May 29, 2009 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bring it on!! Terrible Tom would get some traction in rural Georgia. We still likes our KKK down here. We got rid of a Dem governor who tried messing with our Confederate State flag.
May 29, 2009 9:42 AM | Reply | Permalink