A Wasted Nomination

Hispanics have a right to be excited about the nomination of Sotomayor for a position on the supreme court (In a recent Pole at Rasmussen Reports: Hispanic voters favor confirmation by a 66% to 15% margin.), but that begs the question, are they excited just because she is Hispanic? She is certainly not the most qualified of any potential nominee, Hispanic or not, as I have to believe that there are other Hispanic judges out there that qualify for consideration. She is not a great legal mind - if she were then Harriet Miers would be on the bench today, because in terms of ability they about the same - Sotomayor has a slight upper hand being a federal appeals judge. Here rulings are overturned at the 70% level and many are considered shoddy pieces of legal reasoning. From her own words she paints herself as somewhat of a racist and at the very least an insensitive liberal ranter. She firmly believes in judicial activism and making law from the bench - again her own words. Clearly she knows how to spell constitution but I don't know if she has actually read it. Her demeanor during her nomination acceptance speech immediately struck me wrong and I had this urge to run away - it was that if I had a reason I would sue you white guy attitude. The nice thing about the blogs and the none fawning news media is that Sotomayor is being buried in her own sputum. If everything that she has said and done as a judge were transferred to a White nominee the white nominee would be resigning 5 minutes after their nomination. It all comes down to this - Obama chose her because she is a mirror of his own callous insensitive, self-centered, liberal and shallow self. Everything that she is, as it is for the Obama, is within the outer layer of her skin. She fails the Martin Luther King test for "content of character" because she has none. So, what I said for electing the first "black" president, applies to Sotomayor, her nomination is in no way that historic or significant - as it was inevitable, the trick was to nominate the right Hispanic - and Obama failed there as those who voted for the Obama failed.