Obama Administration: Dissension Will NOT Be Tolerated

It is a truism that Sonia Sotomayor, Mr Obama's 54-year-old nomination for SCOTUS to replace retiring Justice Souter, said in a 2001 lecture in re her Hispanic (read: Puerto Rican) background:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."

It is also true that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs warned those persons with questions or curiosities about Mr Obama's nomination that they'd be labeled racists and sexists if they did or said anything that could remotely be interpreted as being less than fully and completely supportive of Sotomayor:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a pointed warning to opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination Wednesday, urging critics to measure their words carefully during a politically charged confirmation debate.

“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.

This was in response to the comment of Newt Gingrich where he reacted to Sotomayor's 2001 statement above.

In her Wall Street Journal column on Friday, conservative commentator Peggy Noonan panned Gingrich for Twittering that Sotomayor should withdraw because a white judicial nominee would have to if he made a similar statement on race.

Is this a wrong statement by Gingrich, or a correct statement?  I personally believe it to be true.  So, what's the fuss?

The fuss is: dissension will not be tolerated by the Left and, apparently, not much on the Conservative side as well, considering the reactions by various so-called Conservatives.

BZ