More About Old White Guys

In a fine example of Grasping-At-Straws, some of the more knee-jerky (or just the more jerky) leftovers of the late unlamented far right are citing the new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's (Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’) comments from an 8 year old lecture. She said something like: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Well, I gotta say Look At The Record: it looks to me like the Latina would only have to be half-wise to be able to outshine the recent results of the Old-White-Guy network. I speak of the political legal social and economic outcomes of the last 30 years. Ms. Sotomayor and others like her could scarcely do worse. I'm a little surprised that the no-longer-so-neo-cons didn't also point out that she gave this speech at Berkeley, which probably means she's a Socialist at least, if not a downright Communist!
Of course the ever-facile Newt Gingrich has labelled her as a "racist" for her comment. When it comes to simplistic statemsnts, Newt's always a great go-to guy! Unfortunately (or not), I'm not a member of Newt's Twitter Club.