How McConnell and Gingrich reacted to Judge Sotomayor’s 'wise Latina' comments

From The American Thinker Blog:

And what did former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich have to say about Sotomayor’s nomination?

Not so boilerplate stuff.

ABC News reported, on May 27, 2009:

Just a day after President Obama announced he was nominating appellate court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the battle over her confirmation has begun with former House speaker Newt Gingrich branding her a racist and saying she should withdraw.

The accusations are aimed at comments Sotomayor made during a 2001 lecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Referring to former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's saying that ‘a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases,’ Sotomayor said, ‘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.’

On Wednesday afternoon, Gingrich wrote on Twitter: ‘Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman' new racism is no better than old racism.’

Reverse Discrimination!