Wow. It got pretty ugly, pretty quickly. These nutters couldn't control themselves even if they wanted too.21% party affiliation? That was a good year rethugs.From Media Matters:Numerous conservative media figures have misrepresented remarks Judge Sonia Sotomayor made during a speech at Berkeley in 2001 to smear her as a racist and a bigot.read their full analysis...var addthis_pub="

The RNC's Director of New Media, via Twitter, piled on to the right wing meme, fostered by Newt Gingrich, that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Greg Sargent has the tweet and asked the question: Does Todd Herman, the director of new media for the Republican National Committee, agree that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist? Herman just Re-Tweeted Newt Gingrich’s earlier Tweet claiming that Obama’s SCOTUS pick had indulged in “racism,” which is catching some flak from some media figures today.These guys are so desperate and just plain hateful. Newt recently converted to Catholicism. He must have been absent when they were teaching the lessons about loving one's neighbor (or maybe because he's pals with church leaders, he could skip those teachings.) Clearly, Newtie is still a primary messenger of hate and divisiveness. For now, "racism" is the talking point about Sotomayor for the Newt's other right wing pals, as Media Matter shows us in this video: They are pathetic. And, it's weird how these wingnuts are just so afraid of Sonia Sotomayor. UDPATE: Okay, this is getting to be too much. Besides the racism line of attack, one of the wingnuts has added the "rice, beans and pork" critique. Not kidding. We've already passed the point of absurdity. Talking Points Memo found this item in Alexander Bolton's article in The Hill: Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.” This has prompted some Republicans to muse privately about whether Sotomayor is suggesting that distinctive Puerto Rican cuisine such as patitas de cerdo con garbanzo — pigs’ tongue and ears — would somehow, in some small way influence her verdicts from the bench. Curt Levey, the executive director of the Committee for Justice, a conservative-leaning advocacy group, said he wasn’t certain whether Sotomayor had claimed her palate would color her view of

Now if this is not the height of stupidity. This coming from the group of people that called the president the "magic negro." Maybe they don't fully understand what a racist is? This is just so conservative and unparalleled in its ridiculousness.