Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been putting on a excellent performance at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on her nomination.
She is demonstrating her intellectual brilliance, her vast legal knowledge, and also how to handle a group of "conservative white men" who have problems dealing with the changing demography of America, and who grew up in an environment where a Puerto Rican woman born in the South Bronx was seen as more likely to be a maid than a legal scholar.
IF the Republicans overwhelmingly reject Sonia Sotomayor, who has more experience than any Court nominee of the past century, it will only contribute to the continued decline of the GOP, as they are looking at a country in which Hispanics and Latinos are becoming more and more a part of the political and social and economic future of America.Â
The American Southwest (meaning particularly Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado) along with Texas (which is becoming more influenced by Hispanics as well) could become permanent Democratic strongholds if the Republican Party fails to come to grips with reality and does not stop its image of being totally anti minority. White Anglos will be a minority of the country in the next thirty years, and politics therefore will change whether the Republicans like it or not.