OH! By all means give her the position, just because she is a Hispanic, and she is owed that job. You know Ed, sort of like all the AA's voting for Obama, because they were owed a AA in The White House. When did we become a Country of voters , who votes on someones skin tone, and not on if they are Qualified for the job? OH! I know Nov of 2008.

I'd say he's giving them very good advice, and if they haven't lost their cookies completely by this point, they'd better take it. I admire here for coming up from the working class, since I know it's not easy. It's hard enough for a white man, and I'm guessing it's even harder for a woman or someone from a minority group. I understand what she means when she says she might understand what it's like for people down at the bottom of the food chain better than someone born to wealth and privilege, with all the advantages in life. I think she would have an understanding of this on a gut level, that someone born to the Country Club set or the elite would not.

I don't see anything wrong with it, no more than I do with historians pointing out that Lincoln had great sympathy and understanding for the common people because he came from humble origins himself. It's just a fact.

Very well put,! Activitist conservative Replicans can only dig a deeper hole to bury the GOP with a bigger shovel if they keep up the name calling and whining.

Ed, I have to say that I often find myself disagreeing with what you say but in this circumstance, I completely agree with you.

Republicans need to stop this behavior. Its gottent to the point that they are protesting just to protest because Obama did something.

They need to accept that they lost and move on, not continue to point fingers, blame everyone but themselves, and try to stir up trouble every time they open up their mouths. The time to work together is now, not in the future.

They need to start to reach out to the moderates and the independants. Without those votes, they are only a few years from disappearing.

Personally, I'd even suggest now that a new party be born to take its place. A party of moderate Republicans that isn't simply bent on protesting to protest.

@ Michael C. McHugh....... Agree with you 100%. Well said, sir.

Thank you for including Ed's Commentary on your blog. I might have missed it otherwise. It would be nice to be able to respect all political parties in this great country.

I am always amazed by the attitudes of so many Americans. Hispanics can only be truly represented by Hispanics ..... Women can only truly be represented by women .... asians by asians .... blacks by blacks ... white males by white males ....

my family (just this generation) has 12 nationalities within our genes ... English, Cherokee, Philippino, Japanese, Hawaiian, Welsh, Scot, German, Mexican, Jamaican, American (16th generation), and French. And anyone of them or anybody else outside our family can represent us in government positions .... not based on where our ancestors were born but on the values and convictions that they share with us. A persons ancestry doesn't define an individual or give them value ... we value a person for who they are, how they behave, and because each is made in the Image of God.

This is a brilliant choice, If the republicans oppose this and somehow she is not confirmed they will lose hispanic votes accross the nation deepening their problems. IF she is confirmed (and she will be), all the republicans who vote against her will still look bad and Obama will come out smelling like a rose. Either way he wins.

the AC 360 segment on Sotomayor was appalling.
The Republican viewpoint expressed ( and Gingrich quotes) makes me want to stoop to thier level, by as some bloggers do calling them Repuglicans.
If this is all they have to cause as indicated by your Republican leaning Pundit a long delay in her confirmation, it simply adds in my mind to why the republicans have no hope of being a majority for a long, long time and never mind 8 years!!
The real "racists" are the Republicans calling her that.
Regards,
Hodgson.

Mr. Rollins, I wished you had always been that reasonable and rational. This was your most lucid commentary I have ever read or heard from you. Thanks.

Give me a break! You Democrats and the left are always the first to say discrimination, discrimination, racists, racists! You have complained the whole 8-years President Bush was in office. Now, if anyone disagrees with President Obama, you call him racist,

The new judge, she's a far left advocate and you think it's great. However, when President Bush wanted to nominate two conservative judges, you were right there to say "no way."

Do you really want the Government to run your lives? Do you want them to tell you which doctor you can go to or if you can go? Do you want them to tell you how to raise your kids? If this is what you want, then your wish is being granted.

However, I for one do not want them to run my life. This is the reason the United States was founded in the first place. People left England to get away from governmental controls. Now, we are headed back to it!

When will we ever see a Native American in a significant judicial post?

RC Well Man wrote" ... Do you really want the Government to run your lives? Do you want them to tell you which doctor you can go to or if you can go? Do you want them to tell you how to raise your kids? If this is what you want, then your wish is being granted. ..."

Where do you guys get this stuff. I am a proud Liberal. No liberal has advocated or is advocating that the government run our lives, that the government tell us which Dr to go to, or how to raise your kids.

Look at Medicare (thanks, Lyndon Johnson). Does the government tell Medicare patients which Dr to go to? No. My insurance company tells me what doctor to go to.

What Liberal is trying to tell Americans how to run their lives? No Liberal, but right-wing fundamentalists want to tell me how to run my life.

What Liberal is telling you how to raise your kids? Well, you have a point there. Some Liberal judges do tell parents that they must send their children to school, must take them to a physician if they have cancer, and that they should not starve them or keep them chained up. What part of that do you object to?

Mr. Rollins

I have been impressed with you ever since you starting commenting for CNN. Even though i'm left of the center politically, i believe it's important to have two strong political parties in this country. The Republican party would be well served to listen to you and follow your advice.

Sterling Simpson
Chicago, IL