Pat Buchanan: The White Man's Martin Luther King

You know, we've always liked Pat Buchanan. He reminds of of Uncle Andy. Uncle Andy was convinced there was a vast conspiracy of minorities that kept getting him fired. His favorite saying was "I went back down to (fill in last place he worked) and you know what? They hired a (fill in minority)!" We've removed the colorful Anglo-Saxon expletives and southern slang references to ethnic heritage, but you get the picture. Aunt Tilly was more persuaded it was Uncle Andy's drinking that kept getting him fired, but you couldn't convince Uncle Andy of that. Not even when he was sober. Which wasn't too often.

So every time old Pat trundles himself out onto the sound stage at MSNBC to bemoan the fact that The Man is holding whitey back we think of Uncle Andy who went to his grave convinced a black dude had bumped him off the liver transplant list.

That's why we couldn't wait to read what Buchanan had to say about the nomination of Judge Sotomayor. We weren't disappointed.

Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades.

Umm...Pat? Would that be this conservative leaning country? And is the reason the country is less republican because these folks are the only ones left?

No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court.

Well, except these guys. And these guys. Oh, and what about the guy who gave her a job in the first place?

Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review -- all because she was a Hispanic woman.

Really? She didn't, like have to go to classes and take tests and write papers and stuff. What? Was she on the football team or something?

This is bigotry pure and simple. To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries.

Hey, come on Pat. Columbia's not a bad school. Sure, it's no Yale, but then your daddy wasn't the president, was he?

One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated "with the base alloy of hypocrisy."

No kidding. That hypocrisy is a lot of work, right Pat? What happened to the good old days when you rely on sunset laws to keep you safe at night? Now black folks and other non-whites can go anywhere they please, any time of day or night. The Founding Fathers must be twirling in their graves.

Republican senators should use this Sotomayor nomination to put affirmative action in the dock for what it is -- race-based bigotry against white males so that persons of color can receive the rewards of society that they could not win in free and fair competition.

Darn straight Pat. Why, if it wasn't for affirmative action we wouldn't have a black president right now. Well, affirmative action and 63 million votes.