Via Shakesville and Media Matters:
Buchanan: Well, I think I would vote "no" on Sonia Sotomayor, the same way I would have voted "no" on Harriet Miers, and I said so the first day she was nominated. I don't think Judge Sotomayor is qualified for the United States Supreme Court.Yes, and minorities and women have failed to contribute equally to society because they aren't as good as white men. At least, that's what Pat seems to think.
She has not shown any great intellect here, or any great depth of knowledge of the Constitution; she's never written anything that I've read in terms of a law review article or major book or something like that on the law. And I do believe she's an affirmative action appointment by the President of the United States. He eliminated everyone but four women, and then he picked the Hispanic! So I think this is an affirmative action appointment, and I would vote "no."
Maddow: Why do you think it is that, of the 110 Supreme Court justices we've had in this country, 108 of them have been white?
Buchanan: Well, I think white men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built, basically, by white folks in this country, who were 90% of the entire nation in 1960 when I was growing up, Rachel, and the other 10% were African-Americans who had been discriminated against. That's why.
Oooooor, maybe it has something to do with white men maintaining positions of power that allow them to hamper women and minorities in reaching positions of equality.


