[BRIGADE] PJB: Miss Affirmative Action 2009
Published: Fri, 06/12/09
By Patrick J. Buchanan
June 12, 2009
Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008,
Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that
still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in
decades.
The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court
presents just such an opportunity. For, even if the party loses the
battle and Sotomayor sits on the court, it can win the war, as
Ronald Reagan won the Panama Canal debate, even as Senate
Republicans committed collective suicide by voting to give away the
canal.
What are the grounds for rejecting Sonia Sotomayor?
No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the
intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her own
admission, Sotomayor is an "affirmative action baby."
Though the Obama media have been ballyhooing her brilliance -- No.
1 in high school, No. 1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review --
her academic career appears to have been a fraud from beginning to
end, a testament to Ivy League corruption.
Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that, to get up to speed
on her English skills at Princeton, Sotomayor was advised to read
children's classics and study basic grammar books during her
summers. How do you graduate first in your class at Princeton if
your summer reading consists of "Chicken Little" and "The Troll
Under the Bridge"?
In video clips dating back 25 years, and now provided to the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor, according to the Times, even calls
herself an "affirmative action product."
"The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an
'affirmative action baby,' whose lower test scores were overlooked
by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law
School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor
circumstance."
"If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those
institutions," says Sotomayor, "it would have been highly
questionable if I would have been accepted. ... My test scores were
not comparable to that of my classmates."
Thus, Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was
whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review
-- all because she was a Hispanic woman. And those two Ivy League
institutions cheated more deserving students of what they had
worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or
ethnicity.
This is bigotry pure and simple. To salve their consciences for
past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination
again, this time with white males as victims rather than as
beneficiaries.
One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as
Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated "with the base alloy of
hypocrisy."
As the Times reports, on the tapes, Sotomayor rejects "the
proposition that minorities must become advocates of 'selection by
merit alone.' She said diversity improved the legal system."
"'Since I have difficultly defining merit and what merit alone
means, and ... whether it's judicial or otherwise, I accept that
different experiences, in and of itself, bring merit to the
system,' she said, adding, 'I think it brings to the system more of
a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on
the bench."
What does the latest Times revelation tell us?
That were it not for Ivy League dishonesty, Sotomayor would not
have gotten into Princeton, would never have been ranked first in
her class, would not have gotten into Yale Law, nor been named
editor of Yale Law Review, and thus would not be a U.S. appellate
court judge today or a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Indeed, the White House itself leaked that the final four court
candidates were all women and Sotomayor was picked because she was
a Latina.
One wonders how many superior students and judges have been passed
over to advance Sonia Sotomayor's career?
From college days to court days, that career reflects, in word and
deed, a determination to use any power she achieves to create a
society where the demands of diversity triumph over the ideal of
equal justice under law. For Sotomayor, the advancement of people
of color over white males is justice.
Republican senators should use this Sotomayor nomination to put
affirmative action in the dock for what it is -- race-based bigotry
against white males so that persons of color can receive the
rewards of society that they could not win in free and fair
competition.
Lay out the Sotomayor record -- SAT scores, LSAT scores, bar exam
score, law review articles and her opinions -- so that we can see
up close what those who eviscerated Robert Bork regard as academic
and judicial excellence.
No need for name-calling.
Just lay out the lady's opinions and record, so that, if she is
elevated, Americans can say: Barack Obama voted against Chief
Justice Roberts because Roberts could not measure up to Sonia
Sotomayor, his ideal of what a justice ought to be.
SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog