Never short on poetry, Noonan shares my disgust with GOP attacks on Sotomeyer's nomination:
Excite the base? How about excite a moderate, or interest an independent? How about gain the attention of people who aren't already on your side?
The base is plenty excited already, as you know if you've ever read a comment thread on a conservative blog. Comment-thread conservatives, like their mirror-image warriors on the left ("Worst person in the woooorrrlllddd!") are perpetually agitated, permanently enraged. They don't need to be revved, they're already revved. Newt Gingrich twitters that Judge Sotomayor is a racist. Does anyone believe that? He should rest his dancing thumbs, stop trying to position himself as the choice and voice of the base in 2012, and think.
The criticism of Newt, by the way, is merited. If spouting this sort of schlock makes him the "standard-bearer" of the Republican party in 2012, I can't imagine there will be many there to celebrate with him.
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