Posted on 05/29/2009 7:43:07 AM PDT by pissant
As if to magnify what are already major differences between elected Republicans and conservative activists on the question of Sonia Sotomayor, check out what conservative senator (and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Judiciary Comittee member and former Texas State Supreme Court Justice) had to say.
"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."
Republican leaders may not have as much sway over their own interest groups as Democratic leaders do over their, so don't expect the attacks to stop. But it's a bold statement. He even lashed out at Newt Gingrich and the unassailable Rush Limbaugh.
"Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials [and] I just don't think it's appropriate and I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."
(Excerpt) Read more at tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com ...
“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.”
Isn’t this the same idiot lining up behind Specter early on and then Crist in Florida?
If conservatives allow themselves to be silenced by idiots like Cornyn, the Republicans will suffer another slaughter at the polls in 2010.
Do not send money to the RNC or Republican Senatorial Committee. Send directly to conservative candidates.
‘Can’t we all just get along?!’
Failing to call things as they are will not help the republicans. The dems play hard ball, the pubbies play to lose.
These cowards won’t even fight her nomination.
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