Has The Time Come To Say RIP, GOP?
By Doug Patton
June 1, 2009
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The only voices speaking with strength and conviction are not among our elected officials. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and virtually all of talk radio rightly labeled Judge Sotomayor a "racist" for her 2001 comment that a Latina woman is more qualified to make legal decisions than a white man. Every honest American with a brain stem knows what would have happened to Chief Justice John Roberts if he had said or written that he, as a while male, was more qualified to make legal judgments than some Black man or Hispanic Woman.
Senate Republicans do not need to resort to the kind of hysterical lies Ted Kennedy told about Robert Bork in 1987, nor those told by Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas in 1991. They simply need to look long and hard at this nominee's long oral and paper trail and let her record speak for itself. If they do not -- or if they do and find the kind of radical ideology Obama embraces -- and then vote for her out of fear of a popular president, we should order the headstone that reads, "RIP, GOP," for this great party will be headed for the ash heap of history, right alongside the Whigs.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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