Bush Defends Sotomayor

That would be the Bush that first nominated her for a seat on a federal court…

In a birthday interview with CNN, George H.W. Bush contends that President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee has a “distinguished record” and that it’s “not fair” for conservative Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to call her a racist.

Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling HLN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama’s Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.

“I don’t know her that well but I think she’s had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings. Not – [it’s] like the senator John Cornyn said it,” he told CNN. “He may vote for it, he may not. But he’s been backing away from these…backing off from those radical statements to describe her, to attribute things to her that may or may not be true.

“And she was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean that’s not fair. It doesn’t help the process. You’re out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it.”

So does Bush 41 get an angry slap down by Rush like all the other Republicans that have taken issue with his extremist take on Sotomayor? Wouldn’t be a shocker…

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