Hello, Ugly

While Republicans who actually rely on votes to keep their jobs rather than, say, radio ads and base fundraising, there's horror over their fellow travelers' race-based smears (via reverse racism claims based on and inflating wildly upon yet another out-of-context quote) in vicious attempts to derail the historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, the loudmouths are doubling and tripling down:

LIMBAUGH: The real question here that needs to be asked -- and nobody on our side, from a columnist to a TV commentator to anybody in our party has the guts to ask: 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.

That's right, a Latina Federal Judge from the most diverse city in America, who graduated from Princeton and Yale Law School and worked for legendary NYC District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, and has sat on the Federal bench longer than anyone currently serving on the Supreme Court had done at the time of their appointment is somehow the moral equivalent of the avowed white supremacist and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Speaking of which, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, calls the La Raza, essentially the Latino version of the NAACP or B'nai B'rith, "a Latino Ku Klux Klan without the hoods or the nooses" and, regarding the Obama Administration, has "no idea whether they hate white people or not!" So whether or not his long-standing anti- illegal immigrant position has ever had any merit, he's revealed himself for what he truly is, without even knowing it.

Festering Newt Gingrich is getting in on the fundraising action himself, with mass emails going out that seems to nakedly pervert American history to his base-riling, dollar-raising purposes:

"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."

I don't even think I can untangle to parse that logic. Maybe he tweeted it then put it in an email.

But the cake-taker for the week came late, on Friday, with convicted former Nixon dirty trickster, G. Gordon Liddy:

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.

So if the Hispanic GOP strategists aren't upset enough at their prominent party members' utterances, how about every woman in America?

That's right, GOP, keep strengthening your base:



Let's see how small you can get it.