Race Baiting Sotomayor Critic Now Baffled By Argument About ‘Race And Identity Politics’

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Earlier today, MSNBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie got an email about the fight over Sonia Sotomayor from a shocked Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network. “Somehow,” she wrote, “this important debate is turning into an argument about race and identity politics.”

How ever could that have happened!? Maybe it had something to do with statements like this by…Wendy Long: “[Sotomayor] herself has said that she thinks it’s appropriate for her to make decisions as a Latina woman, from that perspective, bringing to bear those demographics on her decision-making. And that she thinks if she applies her personal views and her personal demographics to the case before her, she’s going to make a better decision than a white man.”

That was three days ago on Anderson Cooper. And there’s, of course, much more. Baffling, though, that this could have somehow become an argument about race and identity politics.

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