Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,WND
She can be stopped,the GOP just needs backbone
Democrats and the liberal media are playing psychological mind games with Republicans. They’re saying it is useless to try and stop leftist judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court because she is a shoe-in.
Listening to these pundits,you would think that Sotomayor is as guaranteed to be confirmed to the Supreme Court as Albert Pujols is to be on the National League’s All Star Team. AP summed it up this way,“strategists in both parties agree that Republicans will have to tread carefully – and won’t likely be able to stop her.”
On MSNBC,Chris Matthews congratulated Obama advisor David Axelrod on pitting this confirmation battle against only “wack jobs”and “crazies”such as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh. Matthews contends that Republican senators would likely not fight hard to stop her.
Obama enters this battle with a vast numeric advantage. He has 59 Democratic votes in the U.S. Senate,plus,ethnic identity politics has reached the pinnacle of success in the five months since his inauguration.
Sadly,even many Republican strategists have preemptively declared defeat. Ed Rollins,writing for CNN said,“The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor is not the battle to be waged,and it won’t be won.”
Strategist Lionel Sosa said:“Republicans would be idiots for opposing her. …It would be one more nail in the Republican image coffin.”
So with all the forces of power arrayed against them,why should Republicans fight? The simple answer is it is the right thing to do in defense of the U.S. Constitution.