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As I just posted to someone else - get a grip and read what I said.

I have said he was nominated because he was Hispanic - he was. He is being touted as such. I didn't write that - those who are angry because he isn't being confirmed did. You can't deny that - at least his Hispanicness is the reason for such glee with most of the posters here. Most of the threads about him is how he is being denied a vote because of racism on the part of the Democrats.

Again - read the headline of this piece - just read it - does that speak to qualifications or to race? I didn't write it - I just don't like it - and neither should you and anyone else that claims to be an American.

If you have a problem with the way this is being spun - take it up with the spinners - not me.

'We re nominating 'the first Hispanic on the bench', "this will signal all Hispanic (no minorities) that we have no prejudice' "the Democrats are not voting on him because he is Hispanic" "This will help bring the Hispanics into the Party' That is racial politics.

If I was Estrada, I would be so embarrassed and angry with all this, I would be sick.

Once again, if you don't like the way the rhetoric is going - take it up with the supporters and defenders - not me.

But boy, I can see I struck a nerve here - the truth hurts. Racial politics stinks - who ever is practicing it and there is no way you can spin that = it is just wrong.

Early on the Democrats claimed Estrada isn't Hispanic enough. In other words, to them, he is the wrong kind of Hispanic.

Should Republicans turn a deaf ear to the slander that a successful, conservative person from a Spanish speaking country, is not Hispanic?

The Democratic slander is a glass ceiling, puposely designed to hold down conservative Hispanics.

It's a foregone conclusion that, in the future, plenty of hispanics will hold high federal positions.

This is a well-orchestrated plan by the Democrats, who hope to ensure that only liberal Hispanics will dare to aspire to those high positions.

I also read the name of the specific author of this specific article...Ruben Navarette...he happens to write columns about Latino issues.

Such as this article by the same author in the Salt Lake Tribune

NAVARETTE: Survey Dispels Antiquated Assumptions About Latinos

Latinos see themselves as part of America. They just aren't so sure that America feels the same. In what should be a wake-up call to those in politics, and in the news media, who cannot shake the old habit of continually defining ethnic relations and racial equality within a now antiquated black-and-white paradigm, an overwhelming majority of Latinos (82 percent) say that discrimination is an obstacle.