| A nugget you may have missed: Senator (and theoretical Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey Hutchison refused to repudiate the claims by Limbaugh et. al that Supreme Court nominee and Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. (Sotomayor, as a non-white-male, is apparently unable to mete out justice in a manner of which Republicans approve.)
From the Dallas Morning News:
Texas' senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, also a Republican, declined to repudiate the "racist" allegation during a Dallas appearance on Friday. On CNN this morning, she said "it troubles me" that a judge would assert that her ethnicity might provide her superior insight or wisdom.
So, let's see who KBH is totally A-OK with in terms of their comments on Sotomayor:
She brings a form of bigotry and racism to the court. I don't care, we're not supposed to say it, we're supposed to pretend it didn't happen, we're supposed to look at other things but it's the elephant in the room. -- Rush Limbaugh
"Imagine a judicial nominee said "my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman" new racism is no better than old racism." -- Newt Gingrich
I'm telling you she appears to be a racist. She said things that are racist in any other context. That's exactly how we would portray it and there's no one who would get on the Supreme Court saying a thing like that except for a Hispanic woman and you're going to say it doesn't matter! -- Tom Tancredo
Imagine if a White nominee for Supreme Court Justice said that he believed White judges would be more likely to reach better decisions than Black or Mexican judges. He would not have a chance in hell to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Why should she? -- David Duke
A drug-addled hate merchant, a disgraced former Republican Speaker, an immigrant-hating Congressman, and a former Grand Wizard of the KKK? And she's OK with all of these comments? No problems here? Even John Cornyn is trying to walk back from this stuff, and Gingrich himself apologized.
While one can imagine Kay is trying to avoid losing points with the far-right fringe that makes up the Texas Republican Party's base, this is maybe not the best strategy for a candidate in a state-wide minority-majority state. Should KBH end up on a state-wide ballot in 2010, you can bet folks will be reminded about her tacit support for these comments now.
Keep Klassy, KBH! |
