A “Wedge Tweet”? Dems Bludgeoning GOPers With Gingrich “Racist” Twitter
These things aren’t easy to quantify. But there does seem to have been a strong shift today among Republicans, and in the political world at large, against the Newt Gingrich- Rush Limbaugh camp and its attacks on Sonia Sotomayor as “racist.”
Two of the GOP party committee chairs — RNC chair Michael Steele and NRSC chief John Cornyn — have now condemned the racially loaded attacks on Sotomayor, with Cornyn directly rebuking Gingrich and Cheney. Those tasked with the gig of getting Republicans reelected clearly understand how badly this is damaging the party.
Now Dems are working to keep the story on full boil and extract some pain from the third GOP committee leader, NRCC chief Pete Sessions. The DCCC blasted out a release to local press in dozens of GOP House districts nationwide calling on Sessions to repudiate Gingrich’s claims, too. Dems are seizing on the fact that Gingrich is headlining a June 8th fundraiser for Sessions and the NRCC to demand Sessions condemn Gingrich’s claim.
The fundraiser, obviously, was scheduled before Gingrich’s now-infamous Tweet calling Sotomayor a “racist.” It’s kind of amazing that single solitary Tweet made Gingrich border on radioactive so fast. Call it a Wedge Tweet.
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Yes of course John Cornyn is on the side attacking those attacking our new Hispanic SCOTUS nominee; Texas is an Hispanic majority state.
But I suppose one doesn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
If the DNC is smart, and I know Sevugan definitely is, they will get someone to take a but load of pictures of Newt with Cornyn at that fundraiser then launch some spanish language ads tying Cornyn to Newt’s comments much like Pres Obama did with McCain and Rush. I know a lot of people thought that was a low blow, but politics is a contact sport.
This just in . . . “The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she made a poor word choice in a 2001 speech in which she said that a Latina judge would often reach a better conclusion than a white male judge who hasn’t lived the same life. That’s according to presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs. He says he has not talked directly to Sotomayor about it but has spoken to people who have.”
Great. When are they going to walk back the allegation from the Senate Minority leader & Orrin Hatch & Chuck Grassley that Sonia Sotomayor puts her “feelings” before the law?
I’m sorry, but in 2009 we don’t blithely assume that a sitting appellate court judge is dumber than a 10-year old kid and doesn’t know that judges rule from law, not based on how their “feelings.” We don’t assume this even if the appellate court judge is female. And if we’re stupid enough to suspect this, we read her opinions before running out in public and making this completely reprehensible allegation the central focus of our very first statement on the judge.
Unless, I guess, we’re a member of the Republican leadership.
Racism is an ugly thing. Too often in politics today it gets cheapened by one side or another… this “if a white guy had said it, he’d have been crucified” line is getting tired. The POINT is it wasn’t said by a white guy…
And they wonder why the best & the brightest stay out of politics.
Politicians = failed class – which is why we are in the mess we’re in and why it’s getting worse.
“ich is why we are in the mess we’re in and why it’s getting worse”
Nah, same as it ever was.
You can’t have a government without politicians and not all of ours are failures, by any means.
I never get what exactly you utopians think the alternative is and why you can’t just really enjoy the damn spectacle once in awhile. We all have front row seats to the freak show – it’s allowed to laugh.
And it’s hardly the first time humans have had to laugh at their leaders – really I wish people looked at things from an historical viewpoint once in awhile.
Things are bad? How would you like it if we had an hereditary monarch just like George W Bush and couldn’t get rid of him?
G Gordon Liddy has just added another ugly comment from the GOP talking head side…that will really inflame all women. So if the GOP legislators thought they had taken control of a run-away name calling smear campaign, think again.
I am pretty sure that there are some reasonable GOP legislators out there, but they are going to have to start wearing propellor hats so that we can recognize them….thus far, we haven’t seen any of them…Stand up GUYS/ GALS…we need to know who to actually debate when you present your good ideas.
I think that the Senators who will actually be voting on her confirmation have been, by and large, quite reasonable with their remarks.
Bush was bad – but this just as bad. See the flubbed attempts at “fixing” the economy. The mantra .. we inherited it only washes so far, why doesn’t anyone say – “well, if the previous deficit was so bad… how is quadrupling it better”
Watch the disaster unfolding in Detroit, and the upcoming healthcare debacle. Do they really think 150b will do it? Maybe 150T – but we don’t have it.
Where is the hard bipartisan reporting? On anything???
Why after 8yrs – did I just find a report today that educated me on the different factions and makeup of the Taliban? All this time I just thought it was just.. “the Taliban”
Why did I just find out recently how the Mexican drug cartels use failed states in Africa as middle port for importing tons of pharma chemicals used in the manufacture of Meth?
On and on and on – you really have to dig for this stuff. Meanwhile the newspapers wonder why circulation is down, and the “government” is telling me they’re here to help.
You are right it is a freak show – this one is as bad as the last one.. just no one says it. They just keep saying… “he looks Mahvalous”…
Brings to mind the old James Watt classic: “I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”
Maybe all this talk of Regan has made Newt nostalgic.
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