Gingrich 'tweets' that Sotomayor is a racist.

[CurtEastPoint]

Source: Atlanta J/C

Former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich just twittered the following to his closest 344,357 friends about five minutes ago, never mentioning U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by name:

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.


Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals/Bloomberg

That message was preceded by this one:

Imagine a judicial nominee said “my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman” new racism is no better than old racism

We called a spokesman for Gingrich, who said the former Georgia congressman is currently in Europe.

The aide said the “tweets” are genuine, which makes Gingrich the most prominent Republican yet to take a hard line against Obama’s nominee for the high court. And that could presage more resolute GOP opposition in Congress.

Read more: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway /

[tekisui]

1. Idiots. Let them travel down this road.

A cliff's edge awaits them.

[MADem]

4. How simply and eloquently you made that point. You're entirely correct. NT

[K8-EEE]

28. Yeah keep alienating the Latinos, GREAT MOVE GOP!!

OMG they are such fucking idiots.

[hatrack]

2. Blahblahblah . . . Oh, and "prominent" Republican? Does he hold office?

Is he still a member of Congress? Is he the president of something?

[Dappleganger]

5. In his imagination, yes.

He's still living in the good ole' days of the 'Moral Majority' and Contract with America.

[MADem]

6. No, but I imagine he holds "the former speaker's staff" in his pudgy little hand on a regular basis.

The jerk off!!!

[peacetalksforall]

26. His words and his following originate from his arrogance. Lemmings love it.

Is he really the leader over or with McConnell - Boehner - Rove -Limbaugh - Cheney - Norquist? Does he talk to David Rockefeller?

Isn't he the media man who is doing the MSM's a favor - usn't he stuck in the last decades? He rose in power - is he really still there. I think it's his big mouth and strong lungs and incredible ego?

[KingOfLostSouls]

3. who the fuck is newt gingrich?

I mean, seriously?


who the fuck gives a shit what that fat sack of horsecrap has to say?

[MARALE]

7. He has to get headlines because he wants to be Prez!

He needs some way to get in the headlines, even with stupid comments like this one. He is going by the "even bad publicity is good publicity.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. And here's pudgy-boy Newtie with whatzisname crazy man. Two of a kind.

[elmerdem]

11. the vanishing base of

20% and alienating the hispanic vote = not a fucking chance at prez. Seriously for a party that kicked the dems ass for several years politically they are out in the wilderness right now.

[jobycom]

8. Yeah, that's the normal Republican talking point for non-white public figures.

Lani Guiner, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Carol Mosley-Braun, Caesar Chavez, Jeremiah Wright... Hell, Barack Obama, too.

"They's racist because they wants to stop white people from oppressing them." It's usually called projection, though for the more self-aware Republican it's simply a cold-hearted strategy to turn honest liberal arguments against us, thus weakening the word and leaving us sputtering at how filthy and disgusting they are.

[Stellabella]

10. Project much, Newtie?

What an ass.

[4lbs]

12. The irony of this charge coming from Newt Gingrich. Same with Pat Buchanan.

Newt once claimed in one of his National Review articles that California would soon replace it's flag with that of Mexico, above an upside-down US flag, to the detriment of the nation.

He linked Mexican illegals and the first WTC attack, by saying that "illegal aliens" bombed the WTC in 1993, knowing full well that "illegal alien" is almost exclusively used to talk about Mexican nationals without Visas.

He then made the laughable claim, that Mexicans don't speak Spanish, they speak some sort of Mexican.

Yet, he claims Justice Sotomayor is the racist one.

[aquart]

19. Surely, somewhere there must be a handy collection of those newtie quotes.

Be lovely to list them.

[Hyper_Eye]

13. They have nothing. I hope they keep digging. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. I am watching the Gibbs presser now. Our media is useless and lazy.

They are happy to run with the racist meme and make it true.

We do not really have a media any more - just a mouthpiece for the right wing.

[jaysunb]

15. Newts father should have "withdrawn."

[beac]

16. Keep on tweeting, Newtie!

No matter WHAT you try, your 2012 presidential run is an opus dei-aster in the making.

[edbermac]

17. Jon & Kate are more relevant than you are, Newt.

[Pirate Smile]

18. The Republican Party needs more southern white guys calling Blacks and Hispanics racist.

Hey - why don't they also keep saying SHE will only decide based on emotion and she's stupid. They could throw in "hysterical" and "bitch" too. That'll work.

[izquierdista]

20. A 'tweet'

I'm glad to see the verb used with quotes around it. Since the technology is so new, it will take a while for it to acquire a standard meaning. In the meantime, I will substitute 'mental fart' whenever I see the verb 'tweet'.

[Plucketeer]

21. Gingrich needs to be Newtered

For the sake of our gene pool!

[LiberalFighter]

30. Well... he is a backdoor fornicator of non-primates.

He has to be. Who in their right mind would want to accept consensual sex with that idiot?

[Plucketeer]

32. I'll bet Coulter thinks he's HOT!

[Cha]

22. Sneaky little Twitter snitch...

fucking idiot.

[onehandle]

23. White Power!

The game plan for 2012 is being laid.

[McCamy Taylor]

24. Newt wants to get "race" into the dialoque in order to rile up the South.

The charge of racism means much less than the fact that he was able to initiate a monologue in which he contrasted her to a white male---which tells the KKK types that she is neither white nor male, and therefore suspect.

[daleo]

25. I guess they don't want to win elections, anymore

Alienating the Latino vote doesn't seem like a good long term strategy.

[K8-EEE]

29. RIGHT???

I guess they really don't have anything else but raciscm, sexism, divisiveness etc. but they are really really stupid to not LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS before they automatically go down that road.

I swear Texas will be a blue state in 2012 if idiots like Newt don't STFU.

[struggle4progress]

27. The twit, translated: "Sotomayor can speak Spanish! Eeek!"

[Beartracks]

31. When a Republican thinks...

... that NO Democrat judge can "rule fairly without undue influence from... race, gender, or political preferences" -- and at the same time thinks that ANY Republican judge CAN -- then that person's opinion on this or ANY topic is without credibility.

[Gman]

33. That means so much coming from a man

who told his cancer-striken wife in the hospital that he wanted a divorce.

[gtar100]

34. CBS is reporting this at the top of every hour with nobody else's opinion aired

Bucket carriers of right wing puke. I'm so sick of our "progressive" radio station using CBS for its hourly news feed.