Mighty White Of Him

by digby

Huckleberry whines:

When Sen. Lindsey Graham announced his support for Sonia Sotomayor this week, right-wing radio talk show host Mark Levin said it was a sign that Graham is “unreliable … as a thinker and a leader.”

Wendy Long, counsel for the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, called it proof that Graham “still lacks courage, statesmanship and an understanding of the Constitution and rule of law.”

“May his antics get the attention they richly deserve.”

The response from Graham: Enjoy life in the minority.

In an interview with POLITICO Thursday, the South Carolina Republican defended his decision to back Sotomayor by laying out a broad critique of conservative activists who push “ideological purity” and refuse to cooperate with a Democratic Congress and White House.

“If we chase this attitude … that you have to say ‘no’ to every Democratic proposal, you can’t help the president ever, you can’t ever reach across the aisle, then I don’t want to be part of the movement because it’s a dead-end movement,” Graham said.

“I have no desire to be up here in an irrelevant status. I’m smart enough to know that this country doesn’t have a problem with conservatives. It has a problem with blind ideology. And those who are ideological-driven to a fault are never going to be able to take this party back into relevancy.”

Uhm no. This country has a problem with conservatives Huck. Don’t kid yourself. And you are one of them.

And the country, especially the Hispanic community, isn’t going to see your lugubrious condescension toward this exceptionally accomplished woman — speaking to her as if she were a dizzy, Puerto Rican teenager you were hiring to be your nanny — and then voting for her as some sort of magnanimous post-partisan act. Indeed, they will remember you as one of the faces and voices of the new whining, conservative xenophobes, right up there with Rush and Sessions.

Huck, you consciously and deliberately dirtied this person’s reputation on national television. Voting for her now does not mean diddly — she always had the votes, after all. You’re an ass and you are well on your way to filling the large shoes of Snarlin’ Arlen, who is about to find out that nobody likes him on either side of the aisle, pretty much because he also specializes in doing the nasty kind of knife work you just did and then not standing behind it. It’s the role of a sleazy hit man.

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