Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:43:21 PM
Like most conservatives and constitutionalists, we're in favor of taking the Sonia Sotomayor nomination to the mat.
But once confirmed, we think she could be a win-win for the People.
Forget her ethnicity, her sex (gender is properly used only in grammar), forget even her limited scholarship (so saith constitutional scholars). Her temperament, judicial and otherwise, trumps all those things, for once in, we will have a genyooine she-b**ch commie babe sitting up there on the bench. With an attitude! Her stupidity, if it's true, will only make Obama and his agenda look worse.
That's a plus for us, and it will be for all to see after the Court's first session.
But I find her background interesting, for if ever there was a by-the-bootstraps, rags-to-riches, God-bless-America rise to stardom to match Clarence Thomas, it's that of Sonia Sotomayor. Could she be a David Souter in reverse, a sleeper conservative, once she no longer has to look over her shoulder?
We doubt it.
But no one I know has ever been able to define the hidden pathology that turns someone who made to the top the hard way, over impediments that would break a person even from far more affluent middle class starting points, into an ungrateful shrew, giving the finger to every thing that enabled her to rise. Talk about peeing on the shoulders you stand on.
We call it the Whoopi Goldberg Effect, for it does seem to apply to women far more than men. Men tend to become grateful and become conservatives, like Thomas. But Whoopi, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O'Donnell, all who rose by the hardest route imaginable, once they made it seemed to have decided it isn't fair that other people should be allowed to take the same meritorious road to success.
Our only guess is that maybe some women are more selfish in their achievements, not wanting anyone else to be able to succeed in the same manner. It displays a kind of competitiveness unknown to men...although we note, it is common among small males.
It's not time to try to dissect this cardinal failing in the female race, but it is worth noting in the context of this coming Supreme Court justice.
Bernard Chumm