Friday, August 7, 2009
Reasonable Republicans
Nine GOPers in the Senate approved Sotomayor. She did make some questionable statements in speeches, but her judicial record was not extreme or out of the mainstream, according to experts, and in fact some liberal voices thought she was too moderate. What will the consequences at the ballot box be in the Latino community..
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A few of those are RHINOS.
There will be some repercussions, but not as much as they are making it out to be. Call me an pessimist, but I see more political fall-out over the health care issue, and cap and trade, on BOTH sides. Everyone is saying how it is going to the hurt the Dems. I see it hurting some Repubs as well, for opposing the bills. I myself personally do not like either one, but I wouldn't go to a town-hall and yell at my congressman because of it.
Of all the Repub's that voted "no," I think Coryn (TX), Ensign (NV), Hutchinson (TX), Kyl (AZ), and McCain (AZ) will feel the pain most of this obvious vote against a moderate justice. Was there a good reason to vote against her, other than race or political reasons????? I think not.... There were absolutely no decisions of hers that could be considered left or right.
Amazing, Sotomayor is mexican (yes mexican not the PC Hispanic), so obviously every person of Mexican background supports her?
Why does the liberal media always think that one famous minority person represents the entire views of that minority? The media will rush to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, and both will act like they are speaking for every black person in the country. Seems a bit racist to persume that one person can speak for an entire class of people.
Who said that Sotomayor was voted against because of her race? I seem to recall the issue was her leagal and politic standing. However she is Mexican, so even conservative Mexican people will like her just on that fact? The media does not give minoritys much credit for being able to think for themselves.....
Sotomayor is from Puerto Rican descent, not "Mexican", classifying her as a "Latino". Just as Thomas is suppose to represent the African-American race on the court, and Gingsberg the female gender, Sotomayor will be looked at as both the Latino and Female vote on the court. As you can see, I don't think a lot of people believe Thomas represents the African-American race very well (I've always been told African-Americans are almost always Democrat, and therefore liberal). Same goes for Gingberg. She is a woman, and has a very liberal point of view, but most polls show that women tend to lean conservative, depending on age.
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