Cornyn Sees No Hispanic Backlash on Sotomayor Vote

[babylonsister]

I sure hope he's wrong. More rethug bluster?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/08/cornyn-sees-no-hispanic-backlash-on-sotomayor-vote.html


Cornyn Sees No Hispanic Backlash on Sotomayor Vote

August 05, 2009 12:53 PM

Chalian ABC News' David Chalian Reports:



The Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, charged with increasing the GOP ranks in the Senate in 2010, says he is not worried about a possible Hispanic backlash at the ballot box for the overwhelming Republican opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Judge Sotomayor is poised to make history by becoming the first hispanic to ascend to the nation's highest court. And she is likely to do so with only a handful of Republican votes.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tx., disputed the notion that latino voters, who voted 2 to 1 for Obama over McCain in 2008, might be reluctant to support Republicans in next year's midterm elections based on the Sotomayor vote.

“I think that’s just Democratic cheerleading,” he said.

Sen. Cornyn argued that the notion that any Republican should base his or her vote on "ethnicity, sex, or race" is "offensive," he said.

The Texas Republican also noted that he did not recall such questions being asked of Democrats when they opposed Miguel Estrada or "savaged" Alberto Gonzales, according to Cornyn.

“We take the nominee as a human being, not as an ethnic product of a certain ethnic group or otherwise any more than the Democrats did when they were trashing these others,” he said.

The state of the economy will clearly play a hugely influential role in the 2010 elections. Sen. Cornyn suggested that hispanic voters are conservative in nature and are wary of the government spending under President Obama and the Democrats' watch. Mr. Cornyn suggested the economy will have a far greater impact on hispanic voters decision making than how the majority of Republican senators ended up voting on Sotomayor.

[Aragorn]

1. of course he's wrong

and nothing in this statement indicates he even gets it.

[Aragorn]

2. and another 2 things...

First, this story re: Cornyn et al:

http://startelegram.typepad.com/politex/2009/08/cornyn-confident-gop-will-keep-hutchisons-senate-seat.html

Second, re: Texas politics as usual:

http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1521359.html

Have a nice day now.