In light of the following numbers, it looks like the GOP’s strategy to attack Justice Sotomayor and paint Obama as an illegal alien Manchurian Candidate worked out great:

Yes, that’s a 24-point decrease in net favorability over just three months!

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

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  1. kevinista says:

    yeah saw these numbers a few days ago
    I want to see a poll asking republicans if they wanna put latinos on death panels, we might be surprised haha :P

    but yeah I mean, when you have a round of white dudes telling sotomayor to not snap her fingers and say "oh no you didnt!" then its borderline racist….they are a regional party and they wont come back unless they become a little less racist, hopefuly they wont come back period…

    • Metavirus says:

      the best part of the sotomayor conformation hearings was Jeff Sessions (who couldn't get confirmed as a judge back in the day because he was found to be a shady asshole with racist tendencies) telling Sotomayor that she might have some "splaining" to do (a la Ricky Ricardo). Such class. I still say we should just let the south secede.

  2. Lockwood says:

    First, the secession discussion is a fascinating thread… I can see both points of view, but I guess to me, sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Second, I hadn't heard about the abolish medicare amendment, but I'm all for it. I commented in a post a while back that it was starting to look as if the quickest way to get the health reform that most want and all need would be to give the pubblekins what they claim to want: complete free market control. Let members of Congress spend hours debating some under-educated snot-nosed kid over their claims; let the elderly experience what real rationing is like. We'd have reform in a week or two. But (third,) the reason I stopped by in person was to note that I've been having a low-level argument with a friend over the Sotomayor hearings and vote. My position is that the other side had so damaged themselves prior to and during the hearings that they could not do any real further harm by voting against her. My friend argues that if more had voted to support her confirmation, they could have undone much of the damage, or at least not done as much, that was caused by their abrasive comments during the hearings. What do you all think?

    • Metavirus says:

      I disagree with your friend. By the time for a vote came around, all the bile and race-tinged BS had already been dumped on the latino population of the US. a simple vote, in my view, wouldn't be enough to clear that up. add to that the fact that they're basically trying to say Obama is an illegal alien that needs to be thrown out of his job, and one wonders when the GOP will get to a 1% favorability rating among latinos.

  3. schu says:

    After using the big lie by calling her a racist it did not mater on way or the other. The Republicans think that they can use big lies to roll back voting rights to the fifties. The problem is that more people are voting, not just middle aged whites, and they are even losing the middle aged white vote. Most voters are moderates and the parties gain or lose them by their radical shifts. For a while the Democrats shifted to far left but have now shifted back. In response the Republican’s became poor made and shifted so far right that most voters cannot relate to them.

  4. Lockwood says:

    I have to disagree with "the Democrats shifted to far left but have now shifted back." With the exception of Kucinich, they were all very clintonesque, corporatist and centrist. Many of wished they would stake out ground a little left of middle. I do agree though, that they've shifted in terms of actual governance to the right of stated positions. And the Republicans of course have been chasing the far right end of the rainbow for 15 years, and still haven't found their pot of gold.

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