Rush Limbaugh says we need to oppose Sotomayor even though there’s no way we’ll stop her confirmation. He’s probably right but that really shouldn’t be the mindset. Sure, there’s less than a 10% chance she can be stopped, but in the whole scheme of things 10 to 1 aren’t bad odds. Look at the Harriet Meyers debacle. Odds were we couldn’t derail that non-nomination, but we did. Sometimes you just have to do what’s right no matter what the outcome. Let’s look at what we know. She was a product of affirmative action who got into law school despite her inferior grades. Don’t we want the best of the best on Supreme Court? This is one mark against her. Of course, we have her well-publicized racist remarks that a wise Latina woman is smarter than a white male. That’s strike two. She had her case of reverse discrimination reversed by Supreme Court while she was waiting for confirmation. That’s the third black mark. Fourthly, the whole empathy issue. Do we really want a justice who turns a blind eye to the blind eye of justice and favors one group over another? Lastly, we have the Dems and the press threatening the Repubs that it will be political suicide for them to oppose a Latina. Whatever political advice these guys give us, we need to do the opposite. We need to show the nation we don’t play racial politics. We vote for or against people because of their merits, or lack there of. The Repubs have been showing a little backbone lately. Let’s see if they continue on that path and send Sotomayor back to the minor leagues where she belongs.