Menstruating from the Bench

The hits on SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor just keep on coming. From from former Congressman Tom Tancredo's "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses" on CNN yesterday to Karl Rove's juvenile "Latina woman racist should also withdraw" tweet and Limbaugh's 3-day Latinamania, comes these nuggets from convicted Watergate felon and talk radio host G. Gordon Liddy:

(h/t ThinkProgress)

Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.

And if that's not bad enough, he goes on to refer to the Spanish language as "illegal alien".

I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, "the race."

These "respected" mouthpieces of the right wing, listened to by millions, are certainly killing RNC Chair Michael Steele's hopes of a more inclusive party, aren't they? If current elected officials start jumping on this bandwagon, start supporting such statements or refuse to distance themselves from such, watch further flight from the party. Talk of the Republicans as a regional party? By the time they're done, they'll have a district or two in rural Alabama and Texas.
Related: Good on Peggy Noonan for AGAIN being an adult conservative::

Some, and they are idiots, look at Judge Sotomayor and say: attack, attack, kill. A conservative activist told the New York Times, "We need to brand her." Another told me a fight is needed to excite the base.

Excite the base? How about excite a moderate, or interest an independent? How about gain the attention of people who aren't already on your side?

The base is plenty excited already, as you know if you've ever read a comment thread on a conservative blog. Comment-thread conservatives, like their mirror-image warriors on the left ("Worst person in the woooorrrlllddd!") are perpetually agitated, permanently enraged. They don't need to be revved, they're already revved. Newt Gingrich twitters that Judge Sotomayor is a racist. Does anyone believe that? He should rest his dancing thumbs, stop trying to position himself as the choice and voice of the base in 2012, and think.