You’ve gotta love these guys. There can’t be a better argument for gun control than crazy Republicans who shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get. The spectacle of conservative nutcases vehemently attacking female Hispanic Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, even though they know it will alienate every Hispanic voter and half of the women’s vote and not make a damn bit of difference, couldn’t have been orchestrated better by Howard Dean. Her nomination has been vetted by nearly every legal organization in the country and dig as they must, Republicans have failed to find even the shadow of a smoking gun. Most of the demented dingbats have seen the writing on the wall and are loath to estrange a future Supreme Court judge before whom they will be litigating. Newtie called her a racist and then backed off. Rush is even making nice in some of his recent remarks. The NRA is staying with toned-down rhetoric so far.
Not to worry though, there are still enough right-wing cuckoos out there who feel that the only way to make their case is by using the Swift Boat / Willie Horton approach, to keep the fun in the process. Christian activist Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue and the Society for Truth and Justice (yes, the Schiavo case Terry) has begun a 12-city tour to smear the next Supreme Court judge. His brochure attacks Sotomayor as a dupe of “arch child-killer President
Obama” and worries about “the babies who will die under Sotomayor’s judicial reign
of terror“.
By gleefully putting the face of Bobby Jindal, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin on their party and using time-honored tactics like this, I think we can depend on the faith, flag and fetus party to continue shrinking into obscurity well into the future.
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