Reply #3: Watch for the Sunday morning damage control. It's too late, you bastards.

[seafan]

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"What's this going to look like on Telemundo? What's it going to look like on Univision?" asked this strategist, referring to the nation's two largest Spanish-language networks. "If we want to compete as a national party in the near future, we cannot be seen taking these kind of cheap shots. We simply cannot actively work to alienate the fastest-growing bloc in the electorate."

John Ullyot, a GOP strategist who worked on judicial nominations as a Capitol Hill staffer, said that "any comments politically on race or gender are fraught with peril for Republicans."

"A few conservatives from outside of the Senate, in their zeal to pick a fight over Obama's nominee, decided to get very ugly very quickly," he said.

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