... it's racism, reverse racism, whatever, but it's still racism. And she would bring a form of racism, bigotry to the court. But as I said yesterday, folks, I may look past that. I've got a whole stack on Sotomayor today. You know she would be the sixth Catholic on the Supreme Court and there are a lot of people worried about that. That does not bother me at all. I know a lot of Catholics, I love Catholics. But Sotomayor, she's a Catholic, and she doesn't have a clear record on abortion and I'm, overturning Roe versus Wade, well, that could be huge. I don't know that it'll ever happen, but if, you know, the opportunity to get somebody like her -- she's a Catholic, she's a devout Catholic. She's a Hispanic Catholic, Puerto Rican, they tend to be devout. She hasn't got a record on this. Normally liberals do have a record, I mean when they're pro-choice, man they're, they, they, they champion it. They shout from mountaintops, they trumpet it. She hasn't so I, I can see a possibility of supporting this nomination. If I can be convinced that she does have a sensibility toward life.
On viewing this video for the first time, I was absolutely appalled that anyone, even Rush Limbaugh, would suggest that they would support installing a racist or a bigot to the Supreme Court of the United States. Then I remembered that Limbaugh is a racist and a bigot himself, which not only explained his easy acceptance of such a development, but also allowed me to focus on his unbelievably blatant hypocrisy.
As Think Progress points out:
Limbaugh’s hope that Sotomayor will allow the anti-choice stance of the Catholic church to influence her rulings in the court room is a direct contradiction of his insistence last week that Sotomayor’s nomination must be stopped by conservatives because, as he argued, she would allow her personal experiences to influence her rulings from the bench ...
Apparently in Limbaugh’s view, when judges allow their religious backgrounds to directly influence their rulings in ways conservatives view favorably, it’s blind justice. When judges remark that being a minority can give individuals perspective on the impact of their rulings, it’s racism.
Indeed.
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