Sotomayor: "Abrasive" "Racist"

I'm sure most of y'all have heard about Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court. Well, I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show last Friday and the main topic was what the Republican party is saying about Sotomayor.

The Republican party has been attacking Sotomayor and accusing her for a number of things: for bringing her ethnicity and gender into her decision-making process, for being empathetic, and other things. Ya, one problem with those attacks. As Maddow pointed out, if we attack Sotomayor for bringing ethnicity into decision making, we have to attack Justice Samuel Alito for the same thing, if we attack Obama for praising her empathy, we should also attack Bush Sr. for praising the same quality in Clarence Thomas. So that basically breaks those attacks down for now.

G. Gordon Liddy, one of the masterminds of the famous Watergate scandal and a radio talk show host, said, "let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would be bad." I was like, WTF!?! Is it that her judgement skills will be impaired during that time of the month? Is she less capable to do her job just because she is a woman?

Some republicans are claiming she's racist. How the heck is she racist?? Did I miss something? I've seen no evidence of her being racist, except maybe saying that she takes her ethnicity into consideration when making decisions on cases, which totally makes sense if you ask me.
One other thing that was pointed out was that Sotomayor is "abrasive" but what about all those men in Congress and what-not...aren't they abrasive too? Or are they called go-getters? Powerful? Resourceful?

Truth be told, I don't really pay attention to politics but this just pissed me off! How can people be so blind to someone's qualifications and attack her based on her race and gender? One more reason I'll never get into politics.


Here's the clip from the Rachel Maddow show that deals w/ the attacks on Sotomayor.