Rush Limbaugh attacks on Sonia Sotomayor may prove toxic to GOP

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The vilest hysterical attacks on Sotomayor have come, not from elected representatives in the Republican party, but from those who have volunteered to shoulder the mantle of 'town crier' for the GOP.

Loudest and most hysterical is Rush Limbaugh who ignores and skews facts to rant and rave hysterically to his listeners, calling Sotomayor a racist and all but blubbering about the oppression of white people.

"How do you get promoted in a Barack Obama administration? By hating white people or even saying you do, or that they're not good or put 'em down, whatever...make white people the new oppressed minority and they're going right along with it because they're shutting up. They're moving to the back of the bus and I can't use that drinking fountain, okay. I can't use that restroom, okay."

Limbaugh appears to be hoping to stoke the fires of racial discord among his listeners who call themselves ditto-heads, listeners who seemingly prefer to allow Limbaugh to do their thinking for them. Nobody in the Obama administration has declared that they hate white people. The majority of the Obama administration is in fact made up of white people. Sonia Sotomayor has never said she hates white people. But Limbaugh's hysterical comments would have his listeners believing that everyone in the Obama administration hates white people and that they (his listeners) are now "oppressed."

Karl Rove implied earlier in the week that Sotomayor isn't intelligent enough to be a Supreme Court Judge. He also said her colleagues don't like her. Later in the week, Rove apparently remembered that women and Hispanics vote and tempered his earlier remarks saying,

"I think Republicans need to take her on in the appropriate fashion which is about judicial philosophy, her record on the court, her writings and her statements. They need to do so with respect."

But it's too late, the damage is done.

RNC chairman Michael Steele was criticizing Sotomayor before Obama announced his nomination of her. On May 8, Steele called Sotomayor "abrasive" and said the Supreme Court is "not a place for abrasive personalities." This week, Steele is revising his critique of Sotomayor and advising Republicans to "step back from this." Once again, it's too late, the damage is done.

TV personality Glenn Beck called Sotomayor an "Hispanic chick lady."

It would be easy to dismiss Limbaugh, Beck and other radio and TV showmen as simple entertainers with a penchant for generating ratings which translates into advertising dollars were it not for the unfortunate fact that Limbaugh has taken on the role as "titular head" of the Republican party and elected Republicans have let him by cowing before his mammoth wrath. Every elected Republican who has dared speak a word construed as critical of the P.T. Barnum-like showman has subsequently acquiesced to Limbaugh's reactionary rage by apologizing with cringe-worthiness.

Limbaugh, Beck and Rove aren't the only non-elected Republicans who have exhibited symptoms of hysteria. Tom Tancredo has equated the HIspanic non-profit organization, La Raza, an organization similar to the NAACP, with the KKK and forged a tenuous guilt-by-association link to Sotomayor.

G Gordon Liddy, convicted felon, stooped to an all time low by calling the Spanish language the language of illegal aliens and then intimating that Sotomayor and consequently all women, are incapable of rationale by sheer virtue of their ability to give birth, surmising that Sotomayor would be influenced by "menstruation."

Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich called Sotomayor a racist and said she should withdraw herself from the running for Supreme Court judge. Resignation seems to be a favorite theme with the disgraced former Speaker. He admonished Nancy Pelosi to resign as current Speaker for saying the CIA lied to Congress. Gingrich himself resigned the Speakership in 1998 because while being one of the leading voices calling for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, he was having an affair with his young secretary. The discredited Gingrich has lately been back in the political arena spreading his opinion whenever given the chance. What his motivation is is unclear but what is obvious is that he is contributing to the toxic meme that is poisoning the GOP.

If it is the GOP's strategy to alienate and exclude women and Hispanics from the Republican party, then one could say that the aforementioned men have been successful.

The hysteria with which these men have reacted to the nomination of a Latina woman to the Supreme Court of the United States is toxic to the health of the Republican party. During the first three months of the Obama administration, the GOP has been perceived by Americans as the 'Party of No.'

Thanks largely to former vice-president Dick Cheney and his pal Rush Limbaugh, the GOP can now add the descriptive, "party of torture" to its repertoire. Since Obama nominated Sotomayor to Supreme Court and the subsequent hysteria that has emanated from Limbaugh, Liddy and Beck, the GOP can now add the descriptive, "racist, woman-hating, Hispanic-loathing party" as part of its new meme.

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He should be arrested for this.

2010 election....


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one he doesn't fully understand.

As much as I hate him, I hope he succeeds - in burying the party and himself.

or as point man for the biggest soapbox in the country has done more to get the GOP and the US into this disaster.

"Chick Ladies" shut down Glen Beck's show and career.

sort. While the republican leaders are not so hep on revolution, it is increasingly discussed as a solution on boards I visit. And these are not freeper type boards. They are using the Obama gun confiscation, the enforced work camps, the wanted posters on WHITE PEOPLE, the Docea's on all right leaning voters. They are admitting to themselves that their vehicle can no longer be relied upon to foist their agenda on all Americans. They will resort to any means necessary. Without batting an eyelash. And justify it as patriots. They are traitors. And I, for one will be working tirelessly to do as Grover wished. Only I am a reverse tub drowner. They like waterboarding, we will soon see! Just gotta figure out how to tilt the tub without all the water draining out. A STRONG show EARLY to these cretins would be prudent. As they think all liberals easily frightenable, gun deprived, pansy's. They need early confirmation that THAT, like all their other notions, are full of shit. Or we will face a hillbilly revolution. When I think about how they lectured us on being GOOD AMERICANS, and how we had better toe their inhumane, immoral, unconstitutional line, I wanna go rounds. When they accept ZERO blame for the economy, I want to bang knuckleheads together. Christ, I hope that urge gets no venting. Towards that end, I think an early rude awakening is necessary for these traitors to pipe down.

for the people you describe. Do you mind sharing some of the websites you talked about? You said they aren't "freeper type boards." I'd like to see them (and sort of hate to see them but...) so I can maybe write about it. Thanks.

without doing ANYTHING about it, it will jsut get worse. I've tried to figure out why they are continuing the hate rhetoric, knowing full well than Sotomayor will be confirmed easily, and that they are further alienating women and Hispanics. The only possible reason is to try to spark a civil war or act of terrorism by some of their brainwashed followers.

Hopefully our side will be ready. I agree that once we hit back with authority their cowardly "Leaders" like Limpballs and Hannity will snivel and cry and run for safety. But we should be prepared for when it happens.

This is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP and I couldn't be happier. Maybe now this party will be exposed for the racist, sexist, murdering bastards that they are.

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stand up to the hate-mongering radio and TV guys. It will be interesting to see if Cornyn will apologize to PT Barnum-Limbaugh.