Widening The Schism

There's no greater evidence of the split between the Wingers and the GOP right now than the Sotomayor fight. The Michael Steele wing realizes this is in every way a losing battle: Sotomayor is the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in decades, with the most federal judge experience in seventy years, appointed by Poppy Bush to the federal courts, plus graduating top of her class in Princeton and Yale law school. There's no way they can attack her without coming across as disgustingly personal or being the Party of No, and this side is more than aware of what's at stake.

The Rush Limbaugh wing on the other hand couldn't care less. Their hatred for Obama so drives them to the point of insanity that they cannot accept a Latina on the Supreme Court unless that person is Alberto Gonzales in a dress. The sheer volume of the deluge of racism and misogyny is impressive, considering it has only been rougly 48 hours. They don't care if they come across as hating Hispanics and women...because they hate Hispanics and women.

The lastest insanity in this war? Sotomayor supposedly belongs to the Hispanic "identity group" La Raza.

As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a "racist," Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police.

According the American Bar Association, Sotomayor is a member of the NCLR, which bills itself as the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S.

Meaning "the Race," La Raza also has connections to groups that advocate the separation of several southwestern states from the rest of America.

Which is much like any African-American professional belonging to the NAACP, or a Jewish professional belonging to any of a number of Jewish advocacy groups, or a female professional belonging to NOW, or a gay professional belonging to one of any number of gay rights advocacy groups.

But apparently we're supposed to believe a Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx who is a Princeton summa cum laude grad is secretly pushing for Mexico to retake the American southwest.

The GOP self-destruction continues. Congressional Republicans are trapped. They dare not fight their base on this, but they dare not go after Sotomayor on these completely insane racist attacks, either.

One of the two will have to give this summer, and either way the GOP loses.