From The American Thinker:

If they can stomach it, Republicans should prep themselves for Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing by reviewing tapes or reading transcripts of Judge Janice Rogers Brown’s hearing. Brown was President George W. Bush’s African-American nominee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats weren’t so smitten with her compelling life story that they were incapable of asking her tough questions.

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Democrats are counting on Hispanics forgetting that it was Democrats who blocked Honduran immigrant Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals solely because they couldn’t abide the prospect that President Bush might elevate the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court. Hispanics should be insulted by the race-baiting.

In fact, I heard a Hispanic woman this morning on a talk show express her outrage at the way politicians and pundits talk as if Hispanics cared nothing for ideas and values, only for ethnicity.

Linda Chavez recommends a healthy public discussion about Judge Sotomayor’s statement about being a better judge than a white man simply by being a Latina woman. Senators should talk about “whether a justice should base his or her decisions on the law or on personal experiences and preferences.”