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What a sad pathetic little man! He ensign coburn inhofe sanford and dare i say it Palin should be banished from this country.

Has anyone noticed that the GOP and the Democratic leadership are a joke. NONE of them can spell "leadership" and the certainly can't provide it.

Oh! It's Mitch "Turtle-Neck" McConnell And The Minions Of The Good Ol' Boys All White Country Club. Nobody Should Be Surprised By His Decision At All, I'll At Least Give Him For Admiting It.

McConnell, God told you to vote for Sotomayor, follow your Christian
belief, please

That is why he is in the Senate and she is headed for the Supreme Court. His brain cells are atrophied and he is unable to acknowledge the bigger picture. I hope God sends him a wise Latina to take care of him in the nursing home someday.,

THE ONLY THING GOOD THAT CAME OUT OF KENTUCKY. IS THEIR FINE WHISKY.

McConnel is full of beans. He clearly didnt see the same confirmation hearing that everyone else did. I guess that's what happens when you are tonsils deep with the NRA!

Bobby G.
She was nominated becasue of her skin color. I applaud anyone who opposes such appointments.

Oh really, Bobby? Then I suppose you opposed Clarence Thomas.

scared white guy, "oh no the world is crumbling down, the oppressed white man never gets his way".
Hey Mitch your ugly and really goofy looking. this is the guy we all picked on in elementary school, look at his face he looks like he should still be in elementary school. Hey republicans, you are going nowhere with your ugly politicians, it may seem superficial but its true ugly, goofy faced people do not get elected. mcconnel, huckabee, michael steele, that big fat southern gov who i forgot about, all of them are way to ugly to be elected. palin and romney are the only chances that you have and one is a mormon and the other is a woman. haha, good luck with that. you can get elected being a weirdo religion or an angry woman, that will not work.

White men have a hard enough time trying to get a job with the uneven playing field. I hope that she is not elected and able to bring more dicrimination through her decisions down on whites. Equality means that everyone is equal and not reverse dicrimination to right a few distant past wrongs.

is anyone surprised. i hope the state and it's people start voting these old geseir's out. there so smugg like they own the world and what they say goes. vote them out. i like her and hope she get nominated. she's a smart woman. and no i am not black or latino, i'm white. she would be good for the lot of them. more women, she be on the judicial group.

This is why putting the GOP back in the majority scares the hell out of most Americans.

I am not surprised at all!!!
It is time to impose term limits on the members of Congress!!!
These guys get in office and in time they are not representing the people interest, but their own!!!

While McConnell says her written statements are the problem, I can think of only one statement (albeit a non-written one) that could be problematic... "Wise Latina Woman" ... In my opinion, the republican party, whose values are similar to my own, is terrified. They're powerless, overwhelmed politically, and are unfortunately making so many critical comments and judgments on everything possible that they are making themselves look like complete and utter idiots. Whether they are idiots or not, I can't say, but they are making so much useless noise about everything, for example,McConnell's statement, that they are now rather like squawking chickens who I am frankly sick of listening to. If you have a reason to protest, then protest. Don't do so because you're politically paralyzed with only your voicebox intact.

Said Bobby G, earlier in the day:

She was nominated becasue of her skin color. I applaud anyone who opposes such appointments.

I hope you opposed Clarence Thomas on the same grounds, Bobby.

Of course he'll vote against her. He is one of that ever-shrinking (thankfully), endangered species: aging, paunchy, angry, white men.

Typical of the GOP, I wouldn't expect anything less from those racist, hypocritical biggots. The GOP is so out of touch with reality. I'm not surprised this came from an old white guy.

Wow. What a surprise (NOT). I guess he doesn't like "radical" judges, unless they're on his side of the aisle.

As a white suburbanite male who used to vote republican until I realized they were evil, I have come to see how racists this country is. Alot of republicans won't even look at President Obama objectively because they cannot accept the fact that he is a black man, no matter how intelligent or educated he is, they will not accept it. Nor can they accept anyone of color. You guys say what you like but your racism shows clearly. Your pathetic and base.

I hope the Latina's take note of the GOP's actions.

But you didn't oppose bush bankrupting this country or lying to us to start a war!

What a surprise!

What else could the senate leader of the party of no say besides "NO?"

As an old white man from Texas, I know a lot of guys like Mitch the Twitch. Some people here say he's got courage. He's shaking in his loafers and soiling his undies over this. Look at that face and tell me he's not one scared dude.

Gotta satisfy his racist, sexist base and still try to look senatorial at the same time. He'll do what it takes to hold onto his job, even at the expense of being ridiculed and loathed by the majority of the country for the thin veil of righteousness that he hides his wimpy racism behind.

They weren't able to pin anything on this fine woman jurist, so Mitch grabs hold of a meager excuse to oppose her, and then he tries to make it sound like he's done a fine thing for America by opposing her. Such a joke. Makes me want to call him Ronald McConnell.

A man with no LIPS,can only vote NO....... who cares ... i mean come on, it is already confirmed SOTOMAYOR........

Mitch McConnell is pathetic. I hope he voted against Alito when Alito said that his life experiences and who he was as a person influenced the way he thought and judged during his opening statements of his confirmation hearings. But, he didn't because Alito was nominated by Bush and McConnell is playing party politics. McConnell should be shipped off to Iran.

Why are you accusing him of racism, he voted for Thomas? Why are you accusing of him being anti-feminist when he voted for Ginnsburg? Please explain to me how his reading of her writtren decisions and her written words should not disqualify her. Bork who was more qualified than any justice before or since and was voted against not for his judicial decisions but for his writings.
And Sotomayor is the one who brought race into the process by her poor decision about the firemen. One of which was a hispanic man. you say all of those firemen were white, yet clearly at least one was not. Her decision was racist and worse, she refused to explain her decision. That is whay the supreme court agreed tro hear the case, because there was no signature on the decision and no comments. She wants to go back and change her questionable comments when brought up by saying that was not what she meant. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. She has made some poor and biased decisions, and McConnell has every right to oppose her.

This old biggot has been out of touch for ever!

Democrats have beat the Republicans in the art of nasty
remarks and bigotry

McConnell would vote against Jesus Christ if he was nominated by a Democrat so what else is new. This leader of the Party of NO is nothing but a hypocritical demagogue. He seems to judge everyone by himself so how could he endorse anyone.

These sanctimonious Republicans are amusing to say the least. There is little wonder why fewer and fewer voters are willing to identify themselves as Republicans.

I wonder who is upset on Mitch's vote. Are they all; white males? I am a white male so I will never vote for such racist wise Latina. I do not care what education and experience she has. She cannot be impartial on the nation's highest court. Thank you Mitch and other sensible senators. I wish you all well to fight for justice.

Looks like this guy could use a nice stiff drink.

Good job, Mitch. I remember what democrats did to Miguel Estrada. Hispanic voters know it very well.

No white person, male or female could of got by with a statement like she made. But because she is a liberal, all is to be forgiven. Double standards just like all liberals use. She'll get in but she'll prove to be a female Obama...you know promise them anything when you are running for office and do what you were really going to do all along once you get elected. You know I think they call that lying.

Not surprising........................he's a southern senator.

What a surprise...the party of NO strikes again.
Who wants his vote anyways? He'll be voted out next election cycle anyways. I think for his next career move, he can easily be a star at UglyPeople.com

Why am I not surprised??? Another OLD white hair guy, time for him to go the next time around....Wonder how many more have gotten the memo to say "nay."

Ha ha, Mitch McConnell from that vanguard of intellectual prowess and tolerance, Kentucky, is voting against a Latina. Now that's a real shocker. What is up with the people of Kentucky who vote for this dinosaur? His voting record is as miserable as his face. Resign, Mitch, just resign...you do nothing to help make this country better.

Look at the way he looks. Who could ever take somebody that
ugly seriously?

We all knew he'd vote against her. He just wanted to get in the news making a big statement about his vote. He wasn't getting enough attention since the Sanford scandal. Is each Senator going to get in the news saying how he/she is going to vote? This is silly.

He is one fine helluva cantankerous character, cautiously castigatin' Sotomayor's records. Let's see some smile on your face, schmuk!

At least you have the guts to vote against an obvious ideologue, a "trojan horse" liberal, who will repudiate everything she told the committee. Screw the hypocrites on the left. They know nothing.

You should have said what our now-VP said when Roberts gave the committee similar empty platitudes. "You have told us nothing."

I can't convince the liberal hypocrites on this board otherwise, and I won't even try. Besides, when TSHTF, the last thing they will hear from me is "from my cold, dead hands."

TERM LIMITS

How do people like this keep their jobs?

Mitch Mc Connell is the most unpatriotic man in the senate. His job is to get the president, the country be damned

Not suprised he would vote against his own mother if she were a democrat...

Kissing up to the right wing fringe, hey there Mitch, in an attempt to keep your job? You should lose your job. You are a United States Senator, and you are a disgrace. KY, you deserve real and honest representation for all your citizens. Good luck with that.

Lack of repsect for the law...sounds like the Bush Administration to me. I can't see what McConnell's problem is with Ms Sotomayor. The Republicans cheap-shotted her the entire time she was in front of the committee. She has more experience than the last two Supreme Court Justices, combined. Get over yourselves GOP!

WHY IS ANYBODY SURPRISED, THIS GUY HATES OBAMA SO MUCH THAT NO MATTER WHAT HE (OBAMA) SAYS OR DOES HE WILL OPPOSE IT, NO MATTER IF IT'S GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY ,OR NOT THE REPUBLICANS HATE YOU IF YOU DON'T THINK AS THEY DO, I NEVER WITNESSED A PARTY SO FULL OF HATE, THEY SHOULD BE REFERRED TO AS THE "PARTY OF HATE", THEY ARE, AND HAVE DESTROYED OUR IMAGE, BUT OBAMA WILL BRING US BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE THE BUSH, CHENEY, CROWD RUINED US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WHOLE "CROWD BELONGS IN JAIL"

Mitch,
You have made a very serious mistake. I truly predict that you will be voted out next term by male/female people of color and women.

You have nothing to offer to our government or the people.
You truly are a waste of tax-payer dollars.

Mr. Mitch McConnell – You pick one highly controversial ruling (so highly that the SCOTUS had to go to a 5-4 split decision to overturn it and create a new precedent of it), then you wants to make it looks like it was a poor judgement (4 Justices disagrees with you BTW) and that she does it all the time (Check her records, she doesn't)...
Excuse me, but was it a lame excuse for sheer bigotry from your part?

"racist" "racist" "racist".............what most from the left call anyone that disagrees with them. Well, people that are so good at throwing out the "racist" word must truly know what it takes to be a "racist" because without a doubt they are a first hand "racist".

@ bOOby g~ are you SERIOUS????????? her skin color? You racist pig! She is more qualified than ANYONE currently on the Supreme Court, she has more experince, more years on the bench,. a higher level of education, a MUCH longer list of opinions, more published, more cases...I mean are you SERIOUS? The reason she wasnt picked by duh-bya might be because of her skin, but not this time. People like you are whats wrong with this country and I wish there was an island for racist biggots like you to be sent away to...Maybe Gitmo would work

WHO CARES WHAT THIS OLD MAN DOES, HEY ! THIS OLD SENATOR MUST ALREADY HAVE RESIGNED FROM HIS SENATORIAL SEAT. DEFINITELY SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL DOESN'T WHAT IS HE VOTING FOR OR AGAINST.
NEXT, PLEASE.

She couldn't answer a Yes or No question – how difficult is that?
BTW – I'm not racist, bigoted, or against open dialogue and different opinions. What I do seek in political office is someone that is honest, consistent, and does not change with the winds of public opinion. Wouldn't that be a change for Republicans and Democrats!

@Moody, and all the other fools on this blog who take any criticism of anyone who is not anglo as proof-positive of "racism": That dog won't hunt anymore. In the post-racial world, people are judged on their merits, did you hear?

Well.. they deserve their own opinions. Just curious, what was his opinions against Sotomayor for her 1998 appellate court nomination?

Poor, poor generic white man. Can't stand the sight of a Latina woman who has double the IQ of him and the rest of his klan.

I think knowing that intelligent Hispanic, female is soon to become confirmed makes him feel insecure about his own future and certain demise of the Good Ol' Boys club...

Perhaps one day he will accept that he doesn't live in the 1700s but I wont hold my breath.

McConnell is awesome. I'm proud that he's my senator. Go Mitch!

Way to appeal to your KKKentucky base, Mitch!!! Please continue to spearhead the charge of the GOP to the Dark Ages.

Who cares? He is just an old fool without anything at the end of his brain-stem.

What should we expect? He is part of the "GOP Cabal of No" that is made up of Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell. You would be hard pressed to find one single item that they have agreed with or voted for since the new administration took over.

Single Mom is no surprise.

This Southern Confederate like the other Southern Confederates will never change. Mitch Mcconnell is an old biggotes typical Southern republican. They will never support a democratic Hispanic who is an excellent juror to any high office. They should all go back to the 1850's and stop dividing the union,.

Lets face it folks, there is no REAL reason to oppose most of the appointees. Politicians do to impress their constituencies, primarily the most influential. This is the case with McConnell. Just political grandstanding. If McConnell's constituency is made up of conservatives, of course he is going to oppose this nomination. He wants to get re-elected. Of course, it means he will not garner minority support. Oh well republican party. You put yourselves in this position, exclusionist!

this guy does not know any thing...I don't know how he got elected in the first place....I knew this long time ago...he would not vote....how idiotic...

He probably would hav evoted for Robert Bork.

Good! He needs to lose his job . . . and I'm sure he will!

MITCH MCCONNELL IS ALL GARBAGE.

Has to be expected from the GOP.
Grand Old Perverts !

Oh McConnell, Sotomayor will do just fine without your vote. I hope the Hispanic community is watching this and realizing that the Republicans never had your best interests at heart. Young people, women voters, and other ethnic voters all figured this out... and I'm glad the Hispanic community is waking up!

What do you expect from a worthless piece of republican garbage...

Really, who cares.

Of course he is what do you expect

Yes, and the rethuglicans want equal rights for all except non-christians, gays, african americans, women who exercise their right to choose, and all the other myriad of things they don't like. Imbiciles.

As an Kentuckian I would never have expected anything else from this backward man.

Respectfully, sir, it is time for you to seek opportunities elsewhere. You no longer represent anything by partisanship, and your ways are dragging the party, as well as the democratic (_small_ "d"), down a very deep well.

Time to go, and take your bigotry with you.

Jackass

Two wrongs dont make a right.... Mitch, white people were wrong for hundreds of years. Who made up the "higher court" deciding that white people were better than other races during early America? Are Americans to leave it up to more ignorant white people to make things equal?

McConnell's opposition to Sotomayor is pure political pandering to the racist far-right. Sotomayor is a mainstream jurist who has excelled everywhere she has been. It is a shame that McConnell seeks to divide Americans by injecting race into the discussion about Sotomayor's qualifications.

Of course he is.

Did the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just say that he will vote against Judge Sotomayor because of her "record of written statements"?

He is basing his vote on a few minutes of her life?

What about the 17 years of her life as a federal judge at the district and circuit court levels? Sometimes I worry about you people!

You know Judge Sotomayor, I am beginning to believe that you had no reason to apologize at all.

No apology was necessary.

I swear she must be exceptionally good to earn the wrath of sessions and mconnell. These guys will always say no to what is good for this country but take us to useless wars in Iraq and drain to our economy. Can anyone show us any good thing republicans did to this country in the last 10yrs?......lets be serious and honest for the love of our nation. God Bless USA.

This really comes as no surprise that Mitch McChinless won't vote for Judge Sotomayor. He probably drew the short straw. I guess he doesn't think he needs the votes of any women or Hispanics next time he runs. And, I hope he doesn't get any. And, when have you ever seen a witness from one of the cases a judge has decided testify during a confirmation hearing? I can't remember that being done with Roberts, Alito, or any others in recent memory. But they had one of those firefighters get up to give his "sour grapes" testimony. Come on, Democrats, grow a pair and just ram through whatever legislation you want the way Bush did. All of his Repub lap-dogs went along with whatever he wanted. Too bad it wasn't good for the country!

What else is new!!! No big surprise.

I am not surprised that this muppet would vote against someone who is highly qualified. In his mind, he has to vote against her because she was nominated by someone who he sees as his enemy. What a wimp of a senator.

Big surprise.

ummmm, he's a republican. you know ... the party that lately has been trying to prove they are the party of no. given their current track record I'd EXPECT him to vote against anyone the democrats put up there. heck, i'd expect him to vote against GOD if the idea came from the democrats.

Mitch Mconnell is racist, pig who shows poor jugdement, and needs to be impeached immediately

Why does Senator McConnell always look as if he's suppressing a fart?

Who cares?? McConnell is a dinosaur abd the leader of a dying party.

At least the fundamentalist, racist, extremist right wingers are consistent. The fundamentalist Muslims and these guys have similar belief systems. Diversity scares the heck out of them because it would mean that they aren't always right on everything and they can't deal with that concept.

Mitch McConnell, like all other republicans, has once again put on display infinite hypocrisy. He accuses Judge Sotomayor of lacking respect for the notion of equal justice and an insufficient willingness to abide by, in this case, the judicial oath. How many times in his senatorial career has he voted in such a way as to demonstrate a lack of respect for the notion of equal justice. How many times in his senatorial career has he demonstrated an insufficient willingness to abide by his implied government servant's oath to serve the people this nation before serving himself with the endless spoils from major corporations, lobbyests and the like. It's an oximoron to accuse a minority in this country of lacking respect for the notion of equal justice – not because of their minority status, but because as a minority, they have never experienced equal justice and thus long for it. It is much easier for a non-minority to lack respect for the notion of equal justice because, always having available to them, they take it for granted. Equal justice...That'll be the day.

Bitter or Bigoted.......which is it itch????

Watch the racist, bigotted libs make comments about a person who votes his conscience, something that is alien to them since it takes a brain and not George Soros, ACORN and the unions telling them what to think.

Interesting. Maybe he should look at the 1992 Supreme Court's ruling in Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992 that upheld Roe v Wade, 8 of the 9 justices involved were Republican appointees. And he's concerned about a Democratic appointee? Seems "activist judges" have been alive and well and provided by the Republican presidents.

What is new look at his racist face. He is party of the Party of No anyway.

who cares his vote is a useless as he should have been voted out long long ago

I guess Kentucky doesn't like to promote racists to the Supreme Court.

Not shocking....

It does not suprise me that McConnell would vote against her. Judge Sotomayor is very qualified but to watch the hearings and witness these white men ask their ridiculous questions has been amusing. These white, republican men are so full of hatred and discrimination it is so offensive. I admire Judge Sotomayor even more that she has had to deal with these hateful and racist Senators and their grandstanding this week. They are so out of touch with the real world. At least Judge Sotomayor will take in consideration what people in the real world are dealing with day in and day out when she is on the bench making critical decisons that affect people's lives.

Thank you, McConnell, Bunning and Bennett!

Hopefully others will join you and vote against her appointment, for the reasons you cite and others.

SO let me see if I got this

He is voteing aganist her for what he doesn't get in her speeches after pulling them appart and changing them, not for what her record has shown her to do. Wow i think i hate this guy's little mind.

She was nominated becasue of her skin color. I applaud anyone who opposes such appointments.

So what , he barely has lips to talk ,less on to vote anything but NO. His no vote does not (COUNT ANYWAY)...... I mean ... BIG DEAL.... WHO TRULY CARES, Judge Sotomayor is a (LOCK).......

Sotomayer could have erected a burning cross during the Senate hearings... and democrats wouldn't have cared!

Obama wants an Affirmative Action nominee and the democrats will obey.... regardless how incompetent the nominee.

What disconcerting principles, Mr. McConnell, does she demonstrate in her rulings? Can you elaborate, or are you too busy these days running from the press to explain your support for someone who has conclusively demonstrated very disconserting principles( or a total lack of them), like Senator Ensign?

Let her go my fellow Republicans. Actually, I think she'll turn out to be a pleasant surprise and a thorn in the far lefts side. I see the Court changing her and not her attempting to change the Court. Let's wait and see.

Oh right!!! We all see this old white man for what he is. No matter how he tries to sugar coat it. He doesn't want a minority with fews other than his to be seated. What a bigot!

She has more experience then you, that’s why she's being elected. You haven’t questioned the guyz to your left or right about their integrity of the oaths they have yet to uphold so why vote against change now?

Does this surprise anyone?
A white, racist, evengelical southern senator announces he will vote NO to confirm an hispanic woman.
Just another reason the Republican Party is the minority party and dropping fast.

Who cares?

I guess you can't vote for someone who lets their beliefs influence their decisions, unless you share their beliefs.

Not a big deal in the scheme of things.

All Hispanic voters will remember your vote next election. I hope they are taking stock, writing note to remind themselves that no matter what you guys say in 2010 and 2012; they'll remember the nomination and how you guys guys treated her.

His vote doesn't matter. She'll get the nod. This windbag has faded into irrelevancy anyway.

That's our celebrity culture for you. No instant gratification equals "I'm entitled and I'm unhappy."

Of course the good old boys will vote against a minority woman candidate. Were she half as qualified, but looked like SP with a law degree, these guys would be all over themselves praising her. Pat Robertson was at least honest last night when he touted the great white men who "wrote the documents, fought the wars, and built this great country.") Presumably, all by themselves with no help from the stupid little women or the native Americans whose land they stole.

He is an idiot!

typical of a conservative republican, racist bigots

That's great Senator. Thanks for your input. We don't need your vote.

Do we expect anything different from this man? It would be news if he actually voted for something from the other side of the aisle.

Imagine that, A senator from Kentucky that isn't going to vote for anyone other than a conservative white guy. Shocking!

who cares what mitch does or thinks he is on his way out the door anyway.

Thanks Mitch. Such a vote by one of the leaders of Dumbf–kistan merely confirms that Sotomayor will make a great Justice!.

She doesn't need his vote anyway.

Well, well, well I am not getting enough attention: This should do it – "I won't vote for her". Well get over it – no one cares whether you vote for her or not.

There's going to be a lot of dems foaming at the mouth on this one!

Popcorn... get your popcorn hee-yah.

Relax, libs – she's going to get in. The responses are going to be fun to read, though.

Big surprise...not!

Like we really give a rodents rectum what this lily-white backward hick thinks...the lead of the P[H]ARTY of NO...He's insignificant and he knows it!

gee, what a surprise! this guy is a hypocrite like the majority of the right wing is so frankly it would surprise me if he did anything else. the only word he knows is "no". of course it's a relatively new word to him since all he did is say "yes" to bush/cheney!

Liar. Does the GOP know it's really not scoring any points with this?

She will be appointed, DOES THIS GUY BELONG TO "THE FAMILY ON C STREET"? AND THEY SAY THE PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL HAS SLIPPED, THANK GOODNESS HE DOESN'T PAL AROUND WITH ANYONE FROM "C" STREET, MICHELLE AND THE GIRLS SHOULD BE WORRIED IF HE WOULD PAL AROUND WITH ANY OF THEM!

Hahaha mcConnell when are you gonna realize nobody care about what you say .vote for or against nobody cares you and your party are and has been HISTORY

Of course he will. Republicans are the party of No after all.

No prob Big Mitch.

She'll be approved without your vote.

Party of No "leader"....shocking.

please vote this old guy out!

McConnell should try reading 17 years of legal briefs by a Federal judge that has been called main stream by both parties with regard to her rulings. If anything what McConnell holds against her is proof that she has been able to seperate personnal bias from professionalism. My guess is that his real problem with Sotomayor is, one she is a woman, and two she is hispanic, with the capper being she was nominated by a Democratic President.

Well...Duh....!

Does ANYONE really care what Mcconnell, Graham, Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney, or any Republican has to say about anything at any time.After 15 years of utter failure (just look at our country today – It didn't get this way since January!) and these morons have the arrogance and audacity to speak in public. That alone should tell everyone it's time for them to GO (not more NO – GO!) even the moron Bush has shut his mouth! Republicans – just shut up and go away!

Big surprise. These repubs have done nothing to earn their pay for the entire year.

Why are they still being paid and utilizing the government health care benefits on our dime?

.... not that there was any suspense. Who cares?

I am absolutely shocked! I thought sure that this open minded, "bi-partisan," self-righteous a-hole would vote "YES." But then, I must remember, he is limited to a one word vocabulary..."NO!"

Dooooooooch!

That is a good call.

OMG! It's official - McConnell is braindead. Take him off life support.

And everyone else will vote against him.

What a shocker and this coming from the party of NO.

Is this really shocking to anyone living on the planet earth? I would be surprised if she gets any republican votes. Not that she isn't qualified; it's just that there is so much tit for tat these days in politics that republicans and democrats cannot agree on anything.

If Jesus himself were nominated for the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell would vote against him for being too activist.

Time for McConnell to go someplace other than back to work. He is representing only himself. Bible thumping, southern senators should be vetted before they can be elected to anything but dog catcher.

Wow...someone with some cajones..good for him.... She was deliberately evasive and she cannot be trusted. She scoffed at the Firefighters and they spent 5 hard years waiting for justice. she is a racist and she shouldnt be on the Court. Like Michelle and Barry she is anti White America but you dont know it YET..

If everybody else would follow his lead and vote against the wise one, the country would be much better off.Anybody that obama picks can't be good for America. Birds of a feather.

Good for him...just solidifies what we already know about the GOP leadership...not even close to "mainstream'.

Who cares! He doesn't have to worry about the Hispanic vote in Kentucky. It will be interesting to see how Kyle & McCain vote in Arizona. We have a large Hispanic population....

What a load of crap.
I could respect a reasoned argument in opposition, but political gamesaying just to keep the conservative base happy...
That's not leadership, that is just being a toady

Just goes to show that what is godd for the goose is not good for the gander. Alito can talk about his background influencing how he looks at things but Sotomayer can't.

We all know whats going on here. This woman is no raving liberal. She apparently has paid her taxes. Her diverse professional background makes her uniquely qualified to sit on the court. Ivy league schools, tough prosecutor, district judge, appeals judge for 17 years. What reason could they possibly have for opposing her. There are 2 things going on here. 1. McConnell is seen by conservatives as not being strong enough in pushing their agenda of exclusivity in American society. So he's going to show them that he could be just as afraid of somebody different than him as they can be. 2. Mcconnell is trying to push Obama into nominating someone from the very liberal wing of the judiciary the next time by thinking if they're going to fight a moderate than why not just nominate a liberal. Although Obama would have a better chance with the likes of Mcconnell if she had the perspective of a male who was white.

That's ok Sotomayor. You don't need McConnell's support to be confirmed. Mitch is a bitter old white man

We don't need you nor your vote. You are in the minority. Feels good, doesn't it.

Finally someone willing to do the right thing for America by supporting equal justice for all Americans!!!! I am tired of not recieving equality just because I am a White male. I am tired of filling out forms for employment and know that I am hurting my chance for the job just because I check the box WHITE and the box MALE. Racisim is alive and well today and our government enforces it by reducing White Males to the bottom of the ladder for equality. I ask, Will I ever be able to find a job if this madness of "government defined equality" continues?????

That doesn't surprise anyone. We all know what he is REALLY about.
Kentucky? We know and we well understand.

GOP = Racism!

Never mind that her court rulings have always been solid and beyond reproach. When ruling against the firefighters, she was following legal presedence and the Supreme Court issued a ruling that in effect said, that from here on out, these matters should be treated in this way.

Well, GOP, better kiss some of the Latino votes goodbye. Since she was going to be confirmed anyway, I'd think they would have saved their fight for the next appointee.

This is a man who is absolutely useless to the GOP. He hasn't the ability to reign in his own party members and it shows daily. The Sotomayor hearings were a traversty of racial bias.

The ever shrinking base of the GOP is dwindling down to the likes of Pat Buchanan, old white men, who age themselves every time they open their mouth.

What I can't understand is why the GOP caters to these fools. They are a dying breed. Cathering to them while tossing everyone else out makes no sense.

It certainly isn't going to win votes in 2012.

It is no big surprise that McConnell is planning on voting no. His reasons are limited and not even 100% valid. It appears that he isn't into supporting anyone that Obama will offer. I can't really call him a racists because I am sure that he supports Thomas.

That's why he belong to the party of "NO GO". So, nobody vote for him next time.

Not unexpected from the turtle-faced KKK member from Kentucky.

Mitch McConnell not supporting Sotomayor? Not a surprise. He's still part of the old school, white-men-in-charge network. She's going to get confirmed anyway!

Oh Baby!

Watching the foaming-at-the-mouth liberals spewing on this ticker is going to be fun! As Sniffit would say... "Popcorn... get your popcorn hee-yah".

Don't worry, democrats. She's in. You may need to take another blood pressure pill, but she's in.

Typical white southern male politician! This nominee is the most qualified in over 70yrs and Senator McConnell, along with his other southern cohorts, can't comprehend the meaning of her writings. But then they all supported Scailia and Thomas!
The behavior shown by this group of southern white senators is appalling!

No surprise here, from the leader of the "party of no".

What else would we expect from a senator as bereft of intellectual depth as Mr. McConnell?

Might as well forget it, as those democrats will support Obama's plan to show the US what it's like to scrape the dregs of NYC ghettoes into the Supreme Court. Obama wants us all to "feel" the Constitution, not just honor and obey it.

This guy is a buffoon, and clearly a racist!

who cares how he votes. He would vote against anything a democrat offiers whether it would be good for the country or no.

Good ol' Mitch, playing to his adoring unibrowed teabaggers while paying lip service to what is right and honorable. Come to think of it, however, that last part is a pretty impressive feat for a man who has no lips.

Mitch you are a sore loser.

It is amazing how tone deaf and rigid the GOP has become. To think I used to actually respect and voted for the the republican party under Reagan and HW Bush

Not any more....................They have completely lost any semblance of sanity and are nothing more than rigid slogan ranting idealoges

I'm sure he'll be bashed by lefites, but he's being consistent. The article says he opposed Sotomayor's 1998 appellate nom.
And before anyone moans about partisanship, please note that it states in the first paragraph that this is the first time he's voted against a Supreme Court nomination. In other words, he supported Clinton's picks.

What a bunch of racists. Their whole questioning centered around their major theme of "wise Latina." My goodness where is the intellect in that. Like they don't feel (C-street) like the superior white male race, and how dare anyone have any pride in their own culture or race. What white men have the corner market on self pride alll of a sudden? And that Pat Buchanan sums it up the best..only white men can be supreme court justices..everyone else has a hidden agenda except white men...........you lnow, white created this country, white men built this country and therefore only white men should run this country...funny..last I heard the Native Americans were the first real Americans so we stole the land from them, and then we had slavery..wow had Black people do all the labor to build this country..so what did white men do other than TAKE off the backs of others???

Obviously non-white people scare him.

I think he's just a bigot and that the GOP is grasping at straws to make sure that anything and everything they can throw into the mix to try and prevent the overwhelming tide of Dem's that are replacing the GOP's power structure is halted or slowed. Darn what's best for the people. Its about power and heck, the Latino vote was lost a long time ago so why not??

Vote against her if you want Mitch. You'll be out of a job next election cycle. Good riddance!

all spanish speaking TV channels and radios are already reporting about the old white GOP man.
Bye bye to all hispanic votes...

so exactly how many times has this lifetime politician been allowed to vote on supreme court justices....

we need term limits for politicians,, but unfortunately those that would create those laws are the same politicians who would effect.. also the same politicians who are allowed to give themselves raises...

way to be an ineffectual twit, mcconnell. do something useful for the people, PLEASE!

what do you expect from a bush/cheney supporter.....