This was magnificent.

In case anyone missed it, Subrosa recently posted a link discussing Sotomayor's actual judicial record.

Frankly, I don't share your optimism. By your own admission, they've ALWAYS been fear-mongering, racist douchebags...and yet even the very worst of them are still around.

What I'm saying is that if they haven't been rightfully driven out by this point, then they probably never will be.

Yeah, you can count on ol' Rush continuing his tirades and getting paid millions of dollars to do so right up until he has a heart attack and dies sitting on his big fat ass.

Right, because making and upholding laws for a country that affect every citizen, should be done by a cross section of our nation.

This irony part is off the chain! It's an embarrassment of irony riches!

Somewhere he's in a room jumping up and down, red-faced, screaming, "I told you! See, I told you!"

only if that room contains a running camera.

I hope Sotomayor gets the job. Here are some thoughts:

1. Politics is a game. Both sides attack the other in inaccurate and sometimes outrageous ways. While it is necessary to point this out when it happens, It is good to remember that this is a game, for both left and right. Your angry attacks make me sad.

2. Anybody who thinks that Latinos as a group are not racist has not spent much time with many of them. I am married to a Latina from Nicaragua for four years, and have spent 15 years of my life working with large numbers of Latinos in the service industry. I speak fluent Spanish and lived in Central America for eight months. The PC standards that prevail here re speech are much weaker among Latinos as a group. I could not begin to count the times I have heard many, many Latinos refer to black people as 'chimpanzees.' Depending to some extent on what country you are in, 'gringo' can also be an epithet. This in no way means that Sotomayor is racist herself. Incidentally, la raza does basically mean 'the Hispanic people of the New World.' It is not used, as far as I have seen, to refer to 'the people' or 'the community'. That word is 'pueblo'.

3. Racism is something which exists as a tendency, probably a permanent tendency, among most people, if not all. (Reverse racism is one permutation of racism.) It is something that America has dedicated itself to fight against, as an experiment, to see if we can not create a higher good. I do not believe that white people, or Republicans for that matter, are more racist than any other group, and in significant ways we have made real changes and progress in this American quest for something better.

4. Certainly it is acceptable to charge white people with racism. Is it a sin to even consider that people of other races might be racist? Is this a double standard?

Again, hope she makes it.

What are the facts?
Is she a member of La Raza and supports carving up the USA?

I'm all for shaking up the good ole boy network.

But I can't support her if she shares La Raza views.

I keep watching the collapse of the Republican Party in much the same way as I would a cr wreck; its horrible, but its nearly impossible to look away. I have never in my life, and I'm positive that most Americans would agree with this, seen a political party utterly collapse in such a horrendous fashion before. If this keeps up, the Republicans may soon be joining the Whigs and Federalists in the political grave yard.
What worries me, on a deeper level, however, is the type of language being used to 'excite' the base. Sadly, with the recent assassinatiion of an abortionists in Kansas, we're once again getting sad proof that language such as the type that Tancredo, Liddy and others are using can bare some very bitter fruit. Although they are trapping themselves into a corner with their racists diatribes, there are those out there upon who such language is not only effective, but it is down right dangerous. The last thing we need are those types becoming incensed and deciding to act out on their rage.

I'm actually curious as to what you consider La Raza's "views" to be. Taking a look at the NCLR (National Council of La Raza) website, and giving it a glance over, albeit, a cursory one, and all I've really seen is where they're a non-profit, non-partisan organization that advocates equal rights and opportunities for Hispanic-Americans.

About La Raza:

As I stated, I haven't given the site more than a glance over, but I'm not seeing anything inherently terrible about their views. I'm sure any one of us could find something to nitpick or debate over in their views, but on the whole, I don't see anything to get worked up over.

+1

NCLR seems no more racist than the NAACP. Of course there are some who bleat about them being akin to the Klan too.

Thank you. I wanted to compare them as an Hispanic version of the NAACP, but to be honest, I don't know enough about them (La Raza) to make such a claim without risking looking like a complete toolbag.

What person in their right mind believes that?

I meant "irony party." And yes, it has running cameras, of course.

No one in their right mind, but plenty of people hopped-up on cognitive dissonance juice.