Blue Moon Aurora

The Sotomayor confirmation hearings have demonstrated a major problem with this country: we are obsessed about race. A judge says that her ethnicity and background help her be a better judge and Republicans go crazy about it. I hate hypocrisy. Republicans are arguing that judges should be little automatons, which is highly ironic because Republicans also argue that you need God and conservative (i.e. white male) values to be an effective judge. It’s hypocrisy, disingenuous, and moronic. All the Republicans will accomplish with their attacks on Sotomayor is to further alienate the Hispanic vote. Seriously, what the hell did they hope to accomplish with this idiotic line of attack? I’ve reached the conclusion that the Republican Party has just decided to give up being competitive or in touch with mainstream America. I also have a real shocker here – ignorant right-wing rednecks are not mainstream America. Yes, a lot of Americans like NASCAR, country music, and American Idol, but most Americans are a pretty sensible lot. Admittedly, the “moron demographic” is fairly vocal and they certainly have a few members of Congress, but they aren’t mainstream America. Also ask yourself what exactly the redneck population has given to the United States? Struggling, huh? The strength of America are not the uneducated idiots who belong to the KKK, but the smart guys and girls who actually add to our society as opposed to just try to divide it and knock it back a few decades. 

It’s all hypocrisy though. How many times have Republicans shouted about how their faith in God makes them better and wiser? So Sotomayor can’t say her upbringing and experiences make her wiser, but Republicans can babble on about how their faith makes them better. I mean Governor Sanford and Senator Ensign have clearly demonstrated how well the whole God plus white male helps them make moral decisions. Hypocritical morons. Don’t get me wrong, there are some sensible Republicans out there – you know who you are, but your political party sucks. 

Not I will also say the Democrats need to get some perspective as well. How many times have you heard in the last year that only in America could X happen? With X being the election of a black president or the confirmation of a Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, the Democrats are doing this whole pat-ourselves-on-the-back thing which is as hypocritical as what the Republicans are doing. News flash: the entire supreme court of Mexico is Hispanic, a real shocker there, huh? Also Africa has had a few black presidents, blows the mind doesn’t it? Also you know what Pakistan, India, Israel, Germany, and Britain have all had women as heads of state, most of them decades ago. We aren’t all that special. We aren’t the only multi-ethnic democracy in the world and we really aren’t out in front on civil rights issues. So no, this stuff doesn’t just happen in America – it happens all over the world. 

What would be amazing, would be if we could talk about Sotomayor's judicial record exclusively and have a honest discussion about what being a Supreme Court justice means. However, that would indicate a willingness for the discussion and only in America does that never happen.