So Orrin Hatch implies she's an intellectual elitist by making the comment on NPR this morning that when she made the policy statement in 2005 she quickly retracted it with a bit of humor and all the intellectuals present laughed.

Buchanan is arguing she's an intellectual lightweight.

Tancredo is just insane and confusing mottos and logos and lying about La Raza.

Republicans are just a sideshow of clowns and misfits these days. It's funny, but it's frustrating because there are still so many who believe in what they're spreading even though they can't seem to all spread the same misinformation. I have to ask Republicans again, if your ideas and solutions are so great, why do you have to lie about the positions of others so you can sell yours?

(whining)

But, but, but...context is hard, it requires, you know, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to use teh Google, and also too it doesn't fit on a bumper sticker...!!!

That was pretty close to a Network moment.

Was that Scarborough cutting in at the end to say "well, you say it's ridiculous..."? OMFSM, what a tool.

Well, my head has already exploded!!!

This whole re-thug racial attack on this eminently qualified judge is beyond INSANE!!

The problem is that there is a small, crazy coven of truely, sick-o nutballs in this country that believes these spurious lies!!

I swear this wouldn't be happening (as much) if Ms. Sotomayor were a man!! I just get the feeling that (like with Pelosi) the white, dick-less, re-thug men find it EASIER to attack a woman. (I realize there are some re-thug women on the nutball bandwagon, too, but IMO, it's mostly white men!!)

What a pathetic cesspool the re-thug party has become!

I bet Israeli citizens call the Egyptians once or twice a week also, and say "Hey, things for us were sooooooo shitty before you took us in and raised us up to become the people we are today! We just want to say Thanks and if you're ever in town look me up so I can give you a great big hug. We couldn't have done it without you!"

Only a white man like Buchanan could get away with saying "you owe us a debt of gratitude for all the violence and enslavement we subjected you to for hundreds of years." If a Latina women had said something like that, the network would be subjected to calls for her termination.

Remember when Phyllis Schafly was the nuttiest GOPer?

What was Doucheboro about to say at the end?

Even when Barnicle explained it, he didn't provide Sotomayor's full argument. But yeah, even Mika agreed that THAT attack on Sotomayor was stupid (though of course she is very "concerned" about the New Haven case),and Joe got pouty and pissy. His whole reasoning this morning was "Yes, Sotomayor's a racist. But we can't say that, because that doesn't win us battleground states. Aren't I so reasonable? We must politely point out that she has racist tendencies." Yes, this was his version of being the "moderate", "I swear, I'm a DIFFERENT kind of Republican", book promoter. I felt sorry for Eugene Robinson when he was on, he is so clearly sick of it all. Joe doesn't even allow him a chance to refute him without getting snarky and sarcastic with his "OHHHH, EXCUSSSSSSE ME, BUT" blatherings.And could we arrange for Peggy Noonan to be abducted by aliens?

Oh yeah, and Pat also cited Jonathan Turley as an example of a liberal who claims Sotomayor does not have intellectual heft. Thanks a lot, Turley.

Same old, same old. This is the cherry picking of facts to support your argument that they have always done. Propagandists always ignore context. Retch Limpdong has made an obscene living ignoring context and and facts that dont support his desired message.

The entire Rev. Wright fiasco was also a context issue. You play that one sentence and only that one sentence and he sounds unAmerican. You play the one minute before that sentence and that sentence and it means something completely different.

Propaganda. Same old, same old.

Buchanan belongs in a tar pit. He's a hateful old bigoted fossil.

Check out Joe Conason's, "Why do Republicans think Sotomayor is a mediocre beneficiary of affirmative action? Because they had their own."

Sonia Sotomayor is not Clarence Thomas

Let's chain up Pat Buchanan, put him on a slave ship to the Middle East and then introduce him to Muslim salvation. Same thing, right?

Oh, wait, that equation only works when brown people are subjugated in the name of Jebus. My bad.

I found a great quote attributed to Buchanan here that might explain his objections to men making the final four.

Ah, Buchanan! The paragon of harmonious racial thinking. I hate when people use that tired old saw, "African Americans are better off here due to slavery than they would've been had we not enslaved them" argument. It's complete asinine crap. Not to toot my own horn, but I debunked this argument in a blog I wrote about 1 month ago. People like Liddy and Buchanan are shameful examples of political muckraking and just plain old hatred and bigotry at its worst. It's disgusting that people like them are even allowed to be on TV or in print or on radio expresing such bile.