re: #490 TheMatrix31

Steele wasn’t hired to be a cheerleader for the other side. His strategy seems breathless and half-baked. In short, he doesn’t know what to do. Sotomayor will be confirmed. Even acting in unison, the GOP doesn’t have the votes to stop her. The question for the GOP is how to turn this “shoo-in” into an opportunity for them, a “teaching moment”.

I think it must be a judo strategy. Sidestep the “American Dream, Horatio Alger” aspect of the story, i.e., “I was born a poor black child” (with apologies to Steve the Comedian), and focus on the new obstacles that reverse racism and identity politics present to the American Dream. Acknowledge her rags to riches story as vintage American, but explore how identity politics destroys that dream. Sotomayor is a walking contradiction in terms, an American success story we should celebrate, harboring the seeds of the destruction of that same success for others with her identity politics, which we should condemn.

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