Yes, he really said that in an email he blasted out:
Gingrich warns that all of American civilization is at stake here. "If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything, we cannot accept that conclusion," he writes. "It is simply un-American. There is no room on the bench of the United States Supreme Court for this worldview."
So, apparently, The Civil War, fighting to give women and blacks the right to vote, and ending discrimination are all made meaningless if Sotomayor is confirmed to the court. Amazing what one liberal justice replacing another can do to the world and history itself!
And he does this by starting off his email by quoting Martin Luther King.
He also goes on to say this:
True justice is blind. It does not consider one's religion, wealth, race or in this case sex, family origin and ethnicity. To do so would be unjust.
To put someone on our nation's highest court who believes these traits should be considered in cases before the court, would be wrong.
I am awaiting his call on Justice Alito to resign as well.
He also jumps on the La Raza bandwagon as well:
It gets worse: According the American Bar Association, Sotomayor is a member of La Raza ("the Race"). The National Council of La Raza was the group that was willing to compromise our national security by promoting driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police.
At least he stops short of calling it a racist organization like Tancredo did (for now).
He concludes by saying that we should pressure Senators not just to vote Sotomayor down, but to refuse to give her a vote at all (so much for upperdown):
THIS time... she shouldn't even get a vote, and should be withdrawn from consideration.
Update
Let's add some victimization and hyperbole (OK, the whole thing is hyperbole) on top of all this too:
P.S. The Obama White House is already attacking me for pointing out the obvious: that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court....
Well, I am not going to back down and neither should you. I see the damage that this nomination could do to our Constitution... and our country. We MUST stop Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court -- or any OTHER nomination that threatens the Republic. Justice demands it!
Non-Newt Update
Just to recap today's GOP commentary, two other comments to complete the bigotry trilogy:
Rush Limbaugh compares Sotomayor to David Duke:
"She brings a form of bigotry or racism to the court," Limbaugh said, later adding: "How can a president nominate such a candidate? And how can a party get behind such a candidate? That's what would be asked if somebody were foolish enough to nominate David Duke or pick somebody even less offensive."
And G. Gordon Liddy has a problem with natural, erm, women's bodily functions:
LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.