Screeching at Judge Sonia

I knew it the moment I heard Barack Obama had chosen Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. The Republican screechers were immediately going to come zooming out of their cave to attack her. Here is some of their bile to date:

* Raving Rush Limbaugh called Judge Sotomayor a "reverse racist."
* Dropout Karl Rove doubted that she was "intellectually strong."
* Pat Buchanan called her an "affirmative action pick."
* Tom Tancredo said "she appears to be a racist." (Tom Tancredo!!)
* Glenn Beck snidely called her "Hispanic chick lady" and said she was a racist.
* Newt Gingrich said that the "Latina woman racist should withdraw."
* Senator James Inhofe questioned her ability to rule fairly "without undue influence from her own personal race (and) gender."
* Senator John Ensign asked if she had the "right intellect."
* Mark Krikorian of the nativist Center for Immigration Studies said that "putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English."
* Oh, by the way, Mike Huckabee said she comes from "the Far Left," calling her Maria Sotomayor -- you know, all those Hispanic chick ladies are called "Maria."

I'm sure this is just the beginning.