Comments on: Update II: Lady La Raza (Sotomayor: Spanish For Racial Set-Asides) https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5931 Sun, 31 May 2009 20:04:13 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5931 Donahue of the Catholic League is gaming and scheming to increase his political clout.

Hispanics have one of the highest rates of abortion in the country. http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/family_values.htm

So, why would a devout Roman Catholic support her nomination? Is there a quid pro quo involved? Or is he like everyone else in Sodom on the Potomac?

I know the real reason.

All the clergy mentioned as supporting the League are staunch supporters of open borders and Hispanic immigration. http://www.catholicleague.org/about.php

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By: Virgil https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5927 Sun, 31 May 2009 02:33:12 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5927 I have been reading through the various “mainstream” Republican\conservative responses to the Sotomayor nomination and cannot say I’m very impressed (Pat Buchanan’s excellent article being an exception). The entire “conservative” side of the debate is somewhere between Newt Gingrich’s shrill shrieking and Peggy Noonan’s snooze inducing let’s-all-get-along mantra.

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By: Barbara Grant https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5926 Sat, 30 May 2009 21:49:26 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5926 Another “conservative” rooting for Sotomayor, albeit “quietly:”

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/pro-life-catholic-leader-roots-for-obama-nominee/

In the article, Donohue further notes his own positive experience with the Puerto Rican community, of which Ms. Sotomayor is a part. Identifying with a particular ethnic/cultural/racial/gender group can be a great thing, poltically, for someone who does not come from the same group as the major star of the moment.

There’s nothing quite like “one issue” conservatives–Catholic or those of my own biblical Christian faith.

[You’re being your usual charitable self:these people are NOT conservatives — not in any meaningful way.]

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By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5925 Sat, 30 May 2009 16:40:19 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5925 La Raza means “The Race.”

How do I know this?

I was the one who contacted NCLR’s national office in D.C. a few years ago and confirmed this. (At the time NCLR’s website featured nothing but cocoa and sepia toned individuals on its main page. No “Anglos” were to be found.) I asked the young female who answered the phone if she knew what La Raza meant. Her response told me she either did not, or was reluctant to speak the truth. I told her it meant “The Race.” I also told her that I had had 4 years of Spanish at the university level, and knew this to be true. She hemmed and hawed in response, thanked me for my time and got off the phone as soon as possible.

Go to La Raza’s website now. There is no longer a “rainbow coalition” of Hispanics on its main page. http://www.nclr.org/ But there are the appeals and demands for quotas, initiatives and “free” programs for health care, education, etc.

As for Republicans, what can one say? Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General, used to belong to MAPA. This organization is affiliated with La Raza!

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By: Vic Jones https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5922 Sat, 30 May 2009 02:31:58 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5922 Unfortunately, any opposition will remain unprincipled with the Republicans and it will be politics as usual. The GOP is nothing more these days than its own worst enemy. You will hear nothing from the GOP in opposing Sotomayor regarding the Constitution, restrained government, redistributive justice, or private property rights. Apart from Ron Paul, there are few, if any others, in the GOP who would articulate these principles

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By: Virgil https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5919 Sat, 30 May 2009 00:45:23 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5919 I already saw the ridiculous Chris Matthews having his regular Two Minutes Hate against Goldstein (i.e. Rush Limbaugh) for saying that he didn’t want Sotomayor to succeed in getting the nomination (and Matthews took a swipe at Tancredo while he was at it). Of course, most of the Republicans that oppose Sotomayor will have no principles on which to base their opposition and will thus botch it and provide more fodder for the liberal-left. As for those that can elaborate powerful and compelling arguments against Sotomayor, they will be ignored or marginalized by the liberal media.

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By: Barbara Grant https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5918 Fri, 29 May 2009 22:49:08 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5918 Response to “Sotomayor bashing” by Republican National Committee Chairman Steele:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-national-committee/steele-gop-needs-to-stop-slammin-and-rammin-on-sotomayor/

BAB readers will not be surprised; Republicans are scum. But what about Great Lady Ann (Coulter)? She wrote an op-ed this week denouncing Sotomayor, but has not yet seen fit to denounce the Republican Party; nor to renounce her membership.

Perceptive Americans see through this fraud. Pat Buchanan has it right, as he does on so many issues. In my view, all principled Republican party members should resign at once. That includes Lady Ann.

[But Coulter is unprincipled. So why should she resign? As I wrote, “Coulter is an attractive GOP cheerleader, who has never opposed The Party in any meaningful way. When matters get heated, she further escapes into her formulaic, ‘Liberals This; Liberals That.’ A recipe that works well for her.”]

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By: Steve https://barelyablog.com/lady-la-raza/comment-page-1/#comment-5914 Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:57 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=9024#comment-5914 The republicans won’t do a thing, other than rubber stamp Mr.Obamas’ nominee. The “self-serving bootlickers” are out in force.

We get what we deserve. The nation blindly voted for Barack Hussein Obama and now we live with the consequences.

Hopefully B.H. Obama will be limited to one term, but by the time he is finished the fascism will be complete.

Empathy on the Supreme Court is what Mr. Obama wants and that is what he will get because there is no true opposition to republican or democrat politicians. Ms. Sotomayor is a shoe in. She won’t be “borked”. No one will even seriously look at her judicial writings or temperament.

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