I think it’s appropriate for sitting U.S. Senators to take a temperate tone in discussing Judge Sotomayor or any other judicial nominee. I just wish the Democrats were so constrained. That’s a major problem here. We demand good behavior from Republican Senators, while excusing execrable behavior from Democratic Senators in their treatment of Republican judicial nominees.

I think Sotomayor should be grilled, especially about her “Latina females good, white males bad” statement, which stated in reverse by a white male candidate, would have disqualified him on the spot.

Time to end the double standard. And if Democrats want to lynch GOP judicial candidates, some hard shots at Democratic nominees are in order.