Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:45:57 PM
["...(Roberts) the former intelligence committee chairman, started off by complaining about how Senate Republicans were scared of President Obama and reluctant to oppose Sonia Sotomayor because they are afraid to "be assigned the label 'bigot' in opposing her."
Pat Roberts is a "no" — never mind Sotomayor's "ethnicicity"
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Pat Roberts is the first Senate Republican to say he'll vote against Sonia Sotomayor.
A conservative talk radio host dared the Kansas Republican to oppose the SCOTUS nominee — and Roberts obliged this morning, citing his Semper Fi.
KCMO host Chris Stigall, speaking with the former intelligence committee chairman, started off by complaining about how Senate Republicans were scared of President Obama and reluctant to oppose Sonia Sotomayor because they are afraid to "be assigned the label 'bigot' in opposing her."
[Audio link here]
That prompted Roberts to reply: "Well, I'm a Marine and nothing much scares me. ... I do not plan to vote for her."
He went on to explain:
I voted 'no' in 1998. I did not feel she was appropriate on the Appeals Court. Since that time, she has made statements on the role of the Appeals Court that I think is [sic] improper and incorrect. I think that we should be judging people not on race, not on gender or beackground or ethnicity or a very telling story. ... Clarence Thomas had that and look what he got.
Roberts, who was briefed on waterboarding by the CIA, took issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim... (Excerpted)
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