Pat is both right and wrong here. His point that the left is anti-WASP is quite true. The Democrats have since the 1880s been a collection of those with grievances against the majority. The preacher, who cost Republican James Blaine (himself half-Catholic with a nun for a sister) the election in 1884 with the line that the Democrats were the party of Rum (urban poor, many of whom were alcoholics), Romanism (a derisive term for Catholics) and Rebellion (Southerners), was quite correct if impolitic. The FDR coalition of Southerners, white ethnics (Catholics and Jews), labor, and Northern Blacks was an extention of this. And it has re-invented itself with every generation. The only difference today is that the Scotch Irish (ironically the first group reached out to in this manner) are now lumped in with WASPs.
A majority of Americans are Protestants and it is wrong that no member of the founding population of the US is on the court. Of course, while Jews certainly are over-represented, but 2/3 of this court is now Catholic. I don’t see the German-Irish Catholic Buchanan complaining about this now or back when President Bush nominated Alito. Buchanan reaffirms himself as a antisemitic hypocrite. But don’t think that the issue of the US Supreme Court being Protestant-less is irrelevant.
Kagan is a communist and Obama would like nothing more than useful idiots to make this a Jewish issue so that the man protecting Iran’s nuclear program from Israel can scream “antisemitism”.
Pat doesn't point the finger at Jews. He points the finger at Democrats who have not nominated a white, Christian to the court in nearly 50 years. 50 years! Not so for Republicans, who have nominated protestants to the court, the most recent being Harriet Miers (who would have been a disaster), David Souter, Robert Bork, Rehnquist, and O'Connor. The Republican presidents chose protestants to fill 5 out of the last 8 vacancies with two being rejected in favor of Catholic candidates (one only after the failed nomination of a Jew, Douglas Ginsburg).
Last point. Out of the Catholics on the court (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Sotomayor, and Alito) who would you rather not have?
Out of the Jews on the court (Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan she'll be confirmed, we all know it) who would you rather not have?
Pat is Scotch-Irish. Not Irish. Most Scotch-Irish are Presbyterian, not Catholic (Buchanan is an exception to the rule). Anyone who claims to have supported Buchanan at one time surely should know this.