‘Wise Latina’ admits she’s an affirmative action hire.
Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008,Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that stillleans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades.
The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Courtpresents just such an opportunity. For, even if the party loses thebattle and Sotomayor sits on the court, it can win the war, as RonaldReagan won the Panama Canal debate, even as Senate Republicanscommitted collective suicide by voting to give away the canal.
What are the grounds for rejecting Sonia Sotomayor?
No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has theintellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her ownadmission, Sotomayor is an “affirmative action baby.”
Though the Obama media have been ballyhooing her brilliance — No. 1in high school, No. 1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review — heracademic career appears to have been a fraud from beginning to end, atestament to Ivy League corruption.
Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that, to get up to speedon her English skills at Princeton, Sotomayor was advised to readchildren’s classics and study basic grammar books during her summers.How do you graduate first in your class at Princeton if your summerreading consists of “Chicken Little” and “The Troll Under the Bridge”?
In video clips dating back 25 years, and now provided to the SenateJudiciary Committee, Sotomayor, according to the Times, even callsherself an “affirmative action product.”