Mark McKinnon GOP Memo: 'Blasting' Sotomayor Would 'Guarantee Our Extinction'

The GOP's Suicide Mission

In a Daily Beast blog post titled "The GOP's Suicide Mission," Republican political adviser Mark McKinnon wrote: "Memo to my party: Blasting targets like Sonia Sotomayor and Colin Powell is a surefire strategy to guarantee our extinction."

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If the GOP is ever to be resurgent, it has to pick its fights carefully. The tendency is, unfortunately, to shoot at everything that moves.

Here are a couple of fights we don't need: Colin Powell and Sonia Sotomayor.

Let's face it, Sotomayor is a political trifecta. Woman. Hispanic. Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval from George H. W. Bush.

Yes, Mitch McConnell has to make his pro forma gestures about doing due diligence. And it is important to fully examine Judge Sotomayor's judicial record. But, every day this confirmation battle gets unreasonably extended is a good day for Democrats and a bad day for Republicans.

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