Posted on 05/29/2009 1:42:29 PM PDT by pissant
With GOP Senate campaign chief John Cornyn rebuking fellow Republicans for branding Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a racist, Democrats are pouncing.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is trying to link the "racist" accusation to potentially vulnerable House Republican incumbents, asking them if they will repudiate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who this week wrote on his Twitter feed that Sotomayor engaged in reverse racism and should withdraw her nomination.
Gingrich is set to headline a June 8 fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
"Rep. Pete Sessions has a simple choice to make: Will he strongly denounce Newt Gingrich's shameful rhetoric or stay silent and just take his money?" said DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer. "Rep. Sessions needs to decide whether he agrees with Gingrich's offensive remarks or whether he will join fellow Republican John Cornyn in coming to the defense of Judge Sotomayor."
On National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” Friday, Cornyn — who has been vocal about the party’s need to extend its reach to Hispanic voters in the 2010 election — excoriated Gingrich and conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for branding the racist charge against Sotomayor.
"Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials," Cornyn said of Gingrich and Limbaugh. "I just don't think it's appropriate and I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."
"I think it's terrible. This is not the kind of tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advice and consent," Cornyn said.
By my count, this gives Cornyn 1 less ball than Lance Armstrong.
I see Cornyn is filling the RINO vacancy left by Spector.
What a gift to the Dems; they must just laugh themseleves silly.
is it racist to call a racist a racist and can they be called a racist for saying your a racist for calling a racist a racist??
Or John Kruk.
That about sums it up.
“This is not the kind of tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advice and consent,” Cornyn said.”
Wondering if Cornyn could take a little of his valuable time away from knocking Newt and Rush to explain “responsibilities of advice and consent” to Democrats.
I'm calling Cornyn.
She is a racist. She’s now apologizing for the comment she made in 2001 whereby she indicated that a hispanic judge’s decision is better that a white judge’s. She’s admitting to racism. PUBS don’t have anything to do with this woman who’s a racist.
They should rename themselves the GOC. The party of Gophers, Ostriches and Capons
My senator is killing us. He will hear from me.
Good Lord, can’t the Republican Party of Texas come up with someone intelligent? Or at least someone with guts?
collectively, all the republicans in congress cannot come up with a complete set.
“I think it’s terrible. This is not the kind of tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advice and consent,” Cornyn said
Right. Let’s all get some manners as the venom-spouting, supercilious, SUPER RICH WEALTHY leftocrats march all their enemies into the ideological boxcars....
Just emailed his sorry butt with a link to the article.
Not to put too fine a point on the matter, but by what criteria has “Hispanic” become a race? What is the definitive characteristic that defines “Hispanic?” Consider the wide ranging socio-cultural features that characterize residents of Caribbean islands, various Central and South American nations, etc, and of course the Mexicans, many of whom are racially derived in varying degrees from ancient “Indian” tribes, all of them lumped together as “Hispanic” for no better reason than their linguistic commonality.
The Republicans are a bunch of spineless, weak-willed cowards (at best).
What’s worse is that it’s (ugh) Newt Gingrich who now is publicly saying things like this, and no one else will.
Newt sure is on TV a lot lately, pontificating on just about every subject....It’s pretty obvious that he’s putting himself out there as a potential presidential candidate (...shudder...).
I've always liked Sen. Cornyn, but he is extremely slow on the uptake on this one, and I'm disappointed.
The Dems set "the tone" a long time ago. The Republican problem has been, and still is, how to respond to them.
Sen. Cornyn didn't have a bit of trouble speaking out very forcefully against fellow Republicans who are pointing out what this SCOTUS appointee has said, and calling it what it is. Sen. Cornyn no doubt would have been quick to call it what it is if a Republican had said it. Why is he so quick to condemn two Republicans who "aren't elected officials", yet he is very willing to accept the "tone" of this woman who would take that attitude onto the SCOTUS?
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