From Drudge:
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee sent out talking points this morning titled: “Judge ‘Scalito’ Has Long History Of States Rights, Anti-Civil Rights, And Anti-Immigrant Rulings.” More from the DNC’s anti-Italian American talkers: “Alito is often referred to as ‘Judge Scalito’ because of his adherence to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s right-wing judicial philosophy.”
One outraged Republican strategist claimed, “If Alito were a liberal there would be no way Democrats and Washington’s media elite would use such a ethnically insensitive nickname. Italian-Americans should not have to face these types of derogatory racial slurs in 21st century America.”
What, we’re supposed to expect consistency from a maleducated gang of moral relativists who subjectively redefine good and evil according to their momentary whims? Given my own use of colorful ethnic appellations, I’d have to be given to a similar hypocrisy if I were to object to the characterization of President Bush’s new Supreme Court nominee.
Scalito actually appears to be very fitting nickname, and Republicans will fortunate indeed if it proves to be an accurate one. I have my doubts, to be sure, but this sort of rote outrage only bores me. I mean, they’re Democrats, what do you expect them to do? If they were capable of intellectual consistency and had a handle on basic logic, they wouldn’t be Democrats in the first place.