We need more than this to stop her. Most will agree that this reflects badly on her, but isn’t enough by itself to disqualify her.
Let’s see...lesbian gay rights activist, never tried a case, lived totally in academia and government, hates the military for not being PC, consultant for Goldman Sachs...not enough to disqualify her?
What would she have to do? Sleep with a donkey on live TV? Murder puppies?
Rosanne Barr would be better qualified...
We stopped Harriet Miers for less. Also have you read her little socialist treatise? These moments are opportunities to compare and contrast. The Sotomayor fight didn’t hurt us at all and it probably helped us in some sectors. Republicans need to realize there is no giving in. We fight not just to win we fight for the right to make our case for the American people. Let them see full on who this nominee is and though our hope of winning is small we can bloody Obama with her. The left has did worse to our nominees and right now is our chance to return the favor. We need to repeat that “Kagan is out of the mainstream” that she is a “radical” who clearly would not support the constitution as written. The show is important, not for us, but for the people across America. Make the left scream for a more liberal nominee. Most Americans see liberalism as a dirty word make Obama defend it. The left most certainly has never been easy on our candidates. We luckily were able to get both Roberts and Alito and we got them because we fought hard especially Alito.
Politics isn’t about being nice. It is by being nice that conservatives have continued to lose ground to liberalism even when they “win”. Could you imagine if we had Judge Robert Bork instead of Anthony Kennedy on the court today?
That is what we fight for. We fight to be heard and if we do not fight then the citizenry will sleep and not hear us.