Bwahahahahah... Cornyn calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments 'terrible'

[jefferson_dem]

:popcorn:

You know the knuckle-dragging conservative dead-enders will not be able to let this go. Keep digging, fellas...

The Sotomayor pick was an absolute master class move by Obama.

Top Republican calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments 'terrible'
Posted: 07:00 AM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

(CNN) — A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a "racist."

"I think it's terrible," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR's "All Things Considered" Thursday. "This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”

Both the popular radio host and former GOP House Speaker have suggested Obama's pick for the high court is a racist while referencing a 2001 speech at Berkeley during which Sotomayor said, "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."

"Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.' new racism is no better than old racism," Gingrich wrote on Twitter Wednesday.

"Here you have a racist – you might want to soften that, and you might want to say a reverse racist," Limbaugh said the day before on his radio program.

Senate Republicans meanwhile have largely withheld judgment on Sotomayor, though many — including Cornyn — have taken issue with some of her past statements and rulings.

"We are all a product of our upbringing and who we are and I think it’s a fact people do have different backgrounds, but I don't think those background ought to determine what the law is," Cornyn said to NPR of Sotomayor's Berkeley comments.

The NRSC chief also brushed off the Limbaugh and Gingrich statements while noting neither man holds an elected office.

"Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials. I just don't think it’s appropriate. I certainly don't endorse it. I think it’s wrong," he said.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/29/top-republican-calls-limbaugh-gingrich-comments-terrible-2/

[Ganja Ninja]

1. An bets on how long it will take for him to go on Rush's show and grovel?

:shrug:

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. Will Rush make Cornyn kiss his feet or his ass?

That is the question.

[Hokie]

2. Maybe John is thinking there are a few Hispanic voters in TX?

I am sure John secretly agrees with Pig Boy and Newtie. He can't say that in Texas though.

[jefferson_dem]

4. Probably true. But that just illustrates the bind they are in.

The haters with nothing to lose will keep up with their bigoted rants. Politicos will be forced to distance themselves from the spew, only making the haters more vehement. Love it...the perfect wedge.

[Citizen_Penn]

17. Hell, if you think people stop short of saying the

stupid in Texas, then you've repressed the last 8 years.

LOL

[Blue_Roses]

21. BINGO!

nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. ahem... he forgot Grand Whizzer Tancredo

There's an awful stink going on at the GOP

[Happyhippychick]

5. C'mon Newtie, c'mon Rushie, don't take that shit. Tell Cornyn to go to hell!

Food fight!

[NYC_SKP]

13. Can you believe Rush is just taking this like a woosie???

Can you hear me Rush?

[BeyondGeography]

6. More proof that the loons have become completely unhinged

:thumbsup:

[jefferson_dem]

7. The nuts in Freeperville are already demanding Cornyn's head on a stick.

...

RINO John Cornyn-R TX, is taking sides these days, always the wrong sides. He endorsed super-RINO turncoat Arlen Specter's Republican re-election campain 2 weeks before he became a Democrat. Cornyn has endorses Obama-lovefest RINO Crist-R FL for a Senate seat. This time he attacks conservative patriots Gingrich and Limbaugh. NPR is a great place for Cornyn to find his voice and endorse Santomayor. John Cornyn and his Powell-esque attitudes are becoming an embarasement to true TEXANS!

1 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:19:19 AM by broken_arrow1
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I really want to believe that those comments were taken out of context. Otherwise, the senator out of central casting can suck it.



2 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:21:42 AM by YCTHouston
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doesnt any of these RINO @$$hole politicians, remember the attempted Borking of Clarence Thomas????



3 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:23:42 AM by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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I thought that once upon a time Cornyn was a real conservative?

When did this change, or was my perception wrong?


4 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:24:04 AM by Halfmanhalfamazing (Barack Obama is a tax predator and for now we are not protected)
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Cornyn told NPR's "All Things Considered" of the attack on Sotomayor as "racist."
Sounds to me like John wants to be more than a Specter spectator.


5 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:24:44 AM by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260403/posts

To: YCTHouston
Senator John Cornyn appears to he become a racist.



9 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:29:06 AM by muawiyah
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This is a law and order issue, Sen. Cornyn.

It has nothing to do with race. Hispanic folk are just like the rest of us. Stop acting like a deer in the headlights, you fool!!



10 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:30:11 AM by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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....when reading stories about someone's response to a question and the question is not included in the story, I usually pass on it. Does your neighbor know you beat your wife?. My answer to something like this is...”I'm not sure what you mean, but one thing I am sure of, is my neighbor thinks your an a&&hole”

11 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:30:12 AM by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Hispanics are more than welcome in the GOP.

Race-baiting Socialist Gun-grabbers are NOT.

What is with these f-ing people? Why is it ALWAYS about “race” (Hispanic isn’t even a race, it’s an ethnicity) with some people?


12 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:30:26 AM by RockinRight (How do you like your Savior now, libs? Looks like Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst President...)
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GoPM to Cornyn:
HELL NO!

The Left declared WAR on this country decades ago under Woodrow Wilson.

They have brigades of special-interest groups that they use as their human shields.

I will destroy anything in our path to defend America.

Sotomayor is a RACIST and a SEXIST and a COMMUNIST. She is incompetent and has had her decisions OVERTURNED too many times to sit on the USSC.

FIGHT HER. DUMP HER. DO NOT GIVE THE DEMOCOMMIE PARTY THIS WIN WITHOUT A HARD FIGHT!!


13 posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 7:31:21 AM by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The most dangerous fascists are those with a warm smile and soothing voice.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260403/posts

[BeyondGeography]

8. Cornhead is dead to them now

One of the most faithful wingnuts in the business...Unreal.

[tanyev]

10. "Senator John Cornyn appears to he become a racist."

Usually when a typo or spelling error is made, the rest of the sentence makes enough sense to determine what the writer was trying to say. I'm completely lost with this one. :shrug:

[Mike Daniels]

12. My favorite item ........"attacks conservative patriots ...Limbaugh"

The only thing Limbaugh loves about this country is his ability to become super rich while peddling a bunch of shit to mouth-breathers who would drink from a cup labeled "cyanide-laced Kool-aid" if Rush told them it was just grape juice.

[CanonRay]

9. Countdown to Apology

5...4...3...2...1

[BeyondGeography]

11. I wonder

Not this time, IMO. Cornhead has seen the party polling numbers and he is in a state filled with Latinos.

[sellitman]

14. I thought only Democrats self destructed?

WTF?

[Citizen_Penn]

16. Keep Blowing yourself up, John

I would love to get me a Democratic Senator.

About damn time.

[blueworld]

18. WTF is a reverse racist? Isn't that a racist comment?

Wouldn't sexism be a more appropriate term for the Wit sisters (Dim & Nit) to bloviate about? It isn't sexism either, but the racist logic escapes me altogether.

I thought in the enlightened 21st century we are all members of the human race with different genetic markers. Oh yeah, I forgot - Conservatives don't read "science".

:wtf:

[librechik]

19. On Your Knees, Cornyn!! Now, Genuflect!

you have 24 hours.

[Arkana]

20. Cornyn's right, but the only reason he's doing it

is to placate Hispanics in his own state.

[Karenina]

22. It works for me that he HAS TO!

:rofl:

[zulchzulu]

23. Limbaugh and Gingrich need to tell their followers Cornyn is a socialist

It's almost tempting to listen to Limpole today...