Well, it took them all week, but a lonely few in the Republican Party, including the WSJ and Senator Cornyn, have decided they’ve got more to lose than gain if they keep up the attack on Judge Sotomayor, especially since the attackers decided to go personal instead of through the issues, which is always fair game.
Some, and they are idiots, look at Judge Sotomayor and say: attack, attack, kill. A conservative activist told the New York Times, “We need to brand her.” Another told me a fight is needed to excite the base.
Excite the base? How about excite a moderate, or interest an independent? How about gain the attention of people who aren’t already on your side?
… Serious opposition to Judge Sotomayor is not only fair, it’s necessary: It’s your job to oppose if you oppose. But it should be serious, not merely partisan.
As for Sen. Cornyn, who can’t afford to offend Hispanics in Texas, he was even more blunt.
“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”
… The NRSC chief also brushed off the Limbaugh and Gingrich statements while noting neither man holds an elected office.
“Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials. I just don’t think it’s appropriate. I certainly don’t endorse it. I think it’s wrong,” he said.
Sometimes politics simply gets down to being practical, where self interest meets self destructive.
Last night Dick Morris talking to Sean Hannity, he said Republicans can’t win this one and should move on. When Hannity pressed him Morris changed the subject, then pointedly asked Hannity, Did you notice I changed the subject? Hey, you can bring a wingnut to water, but that’s as far as he’ll ever go.
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