Supreme Court Justices @ MindSay

Okey-dokey so The Beloved One announces Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the soon to be vacated Supreme Court spot and in a sign that the party is intent on maintaining its irrelevance, The Republicans decide that the best angle of attack is to go the reverse racism route with a dash of "she's a friggin' moron with a fiery temper!' thrown in for good measure.
I have to stop being amazed at the stupidity of the modern Republican Party. This is the same Party that thought an animated corpse like John McCain was the best choice for President last year. Now never let it be said that people like Rush Limbaugh and former congressman Tom Tancredo (he actually equated La Raza with the KKK with a straight face) have ever missed an opportunity to let their anti-brown people bias shine through but when even supposedly bright guys like Newt Gingrich start following along with that meme it shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with the GOP down to its core.
It's fine to be dicks to black folks because black people are used to that treatment from the GOP but to go out of your way to alienate the Latino community is just plain old retarded. If not for the Latino vote we would have been spared the nightmarish 8 years of George W. Bush as president and to push away a voting block that is still up for grabs is the definition of self-destructive behavior. I have been hoping for the Republicans to get their act together because I am no more enamored by the thought of a Democratic one party rule than I was of the thought of Republican one party rule back in the early 2000's but it is getting harder and harder to root for these douchebags as they keep shooting themselves in the foot over and over again.

Now on to Ms Sotomayer...on paper she looks perfectly qualified. She went to the right schools, she has experience, she's a woman and a minority...she is the perfect candidate for the time we are living in. On paper. See my issue isn't with her slip of the tongue about judges making laws since Supreme Court justices have been legislating from the bench since forever and its a bit too late to start whining about it now. My problem is with a few of her rulings (namely Ricci vs DeStefano which I am almost positive the Supreme Court will overturn next month which should be a bit awkward and Doninger v Niehoff, Schwartz in which Sotomayor ruled in favor of a school district punishing a student for off-campus speech))and the fact that she isn't nearly as big a Lefty as I think this first nominee should have been. We already have a gaggle of very conservative Justices and I think it would have been great to nominate someone who was a bleeding heart liberal instead of yet another "middle of the road", centrist Dem.
But my major issue comes from the fact that we really have no clear picture of where she stands on abortion or how she would rule on Roe v Wade and wasn't that the line we were constantly being fed (more like threatened with) during the election?

"If you don't vote for Obama then Roe v Wade will be overturned!" The only way to safeguard Roe v Wade is to elect Obama because he will only nominate people who agree with that ruling!" "Plus we will all get ponies!"

Sorry 'bout that, I lost my train of thought. Anyhoo, what I want to hear is whether Sotomayor (who is a practicing Catholic btw) supports Roe v Wade or not since that has always been the litmus test for every nominee to the highest court regardless of which side of the political fence they lived on. And I don't think that has changed at all.

• Roe vs. Wade was put into effect in 1973.

• Richard M. Nixon (Republican) was president until 1974.

• Ronald Reagan (Conservative Republican).  Elected November 1980.  Served two terms. Appointed Supreme court justices, William H. Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony McLeod Kennedy.

• George H.W. Bush (Compassionate conservative Republican) elected November 1988. Appointed supreme court justices David Hacket Souter and Clarence Thomas.

• George W. Bush (Conservative Republican) .  Served as president from January 2001 - present. Appointed Chief Justice John Roberts and  Justice Sam Allito.

Presently Serving Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice John Roberts (Conservative Republican)

• Justice Samuel Alito (Conservative Republican leans toward Libertarian)

• Justice Stephen Breyer (Liberal)

• Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Liberal)

• Justice Anthony Kennedy (Moderate Republican -- often a swing voter)

• Justice Antonin Scalia (Conservative Republican -- one of the most conservative justices in the Supreme Court)

• Justice David Hacket Souter (Moderate Republican, though has sided with the Left in many instances)

• Justice John Paul Stevens (Moderate Republican)

• Justice Clarence Thomas (Conservative Republican)

2008 -- Roe vs. Wade STILL in effect. So does the "pro-life" movement and pro-choice movement really think this election will have a profound effect on the abortion issue?