The Republican Party is rocking a dead baby with its never ending complaints that health care reform is just a socialist scheme, that stimulus funding isn't creating jobs, and how Judge Sotomayor is going to vote against the interests of White Americans.
As Kos mentioned in his article today, the Republicans are caught up in pleasing the ultra conservative base, and have forgotten good common sense. They are failing to develop their own policies to help hard working Americans, and in the case of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing, are failing to take into account the growing Latino population.
Given the growing number of VOTING Latinos in the U.S., it is politically unwise to vote against Judge Sotomayor. Countless polls are pointing to the same conclusions:
CNN (Aug 5th): Fifty-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say the Senate should confirm Sotomayor, with 36 percent opposed. The 51 percent who back Sotomayor is up four points from a poll in June.
Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last month that found that 58% of Hispanics strongly or somewhat support her nomination, compared with 44% of all those polled.
This more recent poll by the Latino Policy Coalition found that
Latinos have been closely following the news about Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Latino voters, from both parties, are overwhelmingly convinced (68%) that Sotomayor is well qualified to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Similarly, Latino voters are clear that their own U.S. Senators should confirm her nomination (64%).