Senator Cornyn,

I have been operating under the belief that you are one of the exceedingly rare class of people known as conservative leaders in this country. Your recent position on Sotomayor has shaken that belief to its very foundation.

By publicly denouncing Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh’s statements about Sotomayor’s actual history, you have shown yourself to be nothing more than another of the VAST majority of elected Republicans who could not find a vertebra with a thousand doctors and the world’s most powerful x-ray machine.

“This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent?” WHO CARES ABOUT TONE?????

You were elected to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and you swore an oath to do so. NOWHERE in that oath do the words “cater to the tone the media wishes to publicize” appear! Your job is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and when a judge is nominated who has promised to violate her oath of office by a president who both promised to violate his oath of office and proceeded to do so in virtually his every action, your DUTY is to call EVERY bit of public attention to it! TONE???!!! To HELL with Tone! How about the TRUTH?

You are chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. You are charged with finding Republican candidates. You are charged with finding LEADERS. How can we possibly trust you to do that when you are ignoring your own oath of office by refusing to defend the Constitution from these domestic enemies in order to protect the “tone”?

You can “hope that Judge Sotomayor will demonstrate her commitment to impartially deciding cases based on the law, rather than based on her own personal politics, feelings, and preferences” until you are blue in the face. She was nominated BECAUSE she has committed herself to PARTIALLY deciding cases based NOT on the law, but based on her own personal politics, feelings, and preferences. Andy McCarthy got it right when he pointed out that Sotomayor is not even qualified to be a juror, let alone a justice on the Supreme Court.

Act responsibly. Act in accordance with YOUR oath of office. Protect the Constitution of the United States from the attack of our domestic enemy. It has already done more damage to the Constitution than every single foreign enemy combined throughout the history of this nation. We need LEADERS, not protectors of the tone!

Publius II