Another Open Letter to Senator John Cornyn

Will Malven
5/29/2009

Upon reading the Politico article, "Cornyn: Leave Sotomayor alone," in which Ben Smith quotes Senator Cornyn as having called the criticisms of Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich as "racist" and then commenting that:

"Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials."

a comment which implies that one must be an elected official to offer an opinion about a perspective Supreme Court nominee, I have been motivated once more to write to Senator Cornyn and criticize his choice of words and his crass political motives for said criticism.

I do not see pandering to minorities for votes as one of the duties of a U.S. Senator.

As I promised Senator Cornyn, here is the complete letter:

Dear Senator Cornyn,

I have been a long time supporter of you in your career representing we Texans in the Senate.

You have long fought well and hard against those in the Democrat Party who sought to tear down this great nation.

You have been a champion of our Constitution and the preservation of our rights and liberties.

It is for that reason that I am angered and puzzled that you felt the need to attack those who oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor as "racists."

According to Politico's Ben Smith, yesterday during your appearance on "All Things Considered" you said:

"I think it's terrible. This is not the kind of tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advice and consent."

You then went on to state that:

"Neither one of these men [Limbaugh and Gingrich] are elected Republican officials. I just don't think it's appropriate and I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."

Since when are "elected Republican officials" the only people qualified to comment on judicial nominees. Since when is quoting a judicial nominee and commenting on those statements "racist?"

Sonia Sotomayor stands convicted of reverse racism, not by anything that Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich said, but by her own words.

The woman is the most radical Liberal I have ever seen nominated for the Supreme Court. Her view on the right to keep and bear arms stands in direct oppostition of the recent Heller decision.

Her views on judicial activism are an anathema to any who love our Constitution and our national heritage, and the cavalier manner in which she laughed off the assumption that judges don't make law instantly renders her unsuitable to occupy the most powerful judicial seat in the nation.

Her expressed belief that:

"a 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."

is as racist a comment as any made by any white supremacist during the civil rights battles of the sixties and seventies.

Apparently you are more concerned with your political career and getting the Latino vote than you are in preserving the integrity of our Constitution and insuring that only qualified people occupy seats on the highest court in the land.

I am disgusted in your crass political attitude. I realize that you have only recently been re-elected and therefore feel free to alienate those who supported your campaign, but I and many other Conservative Texans will remember this betrayal of trust.

It is time for all Americans to rise above the kind of knee-jerk cry of "racist" of which you are now guilty.

Perhaps it is time for us Conservatives to abandon the Republican Party for a new more vigorous party filled with people who believe principles out weigh political expedience.

As a life-long Republican the thought of doing so saddens me, but the more I see men and women I thought were conservatives abandon their principles for their chances of being reelected, the more necessary such a move seems.

It is men like you who are destroying the party of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes.

We Conservative will no longer be taken for granted while cowards like you pander to those who do not believe in the principles for which our Founding Fathers gave the lives, their careers and their fortunes to see come into fruition.

Perhaps a political animal such as you is incapable of conceiving of the kind of sacrifices the signers of the Declaration of Independence made for the sake of their fellow citizens.

Conservative principles are good principles. They espouse the essence of what built this great nation and the ideals for which so many were willing to give their lives.

They are the principles of many, like Limbaugh and Gingrich, who are not "elected Republican officials."

It is time for men like you to remember that "elected Republican officials" work for the people. They are not our rulers, but our employees.

You owe Messrs. Limbaugh and Gingrich as well as your constituents who supported you an apology and a pledge to work for the Constitution rather than your own callow political ends.

I am very disappointed in you sir, and I am disappointed that I have been fooled by you in the past. Rest assured that I will no longer allow you to deceive me with your "I'm a Conservative" act.

You may rest assured that I will remember your every action when you once more are forced to go back to the people a lie about your agenda so that you can be reelected.

Sincerely,

Will Malven
houstonconservative.com

P.S. A copy of this entire e-mail will be posted on my website.

To say that I am disappointed in Senator Cornyn of late would be an understatement.

Apparently ascending to a position of leadership within the Republican Party requires one to leave his courage, his principles, and his sense of duty to the American people and to his constituents at the door and don the robes of cynicism and hypocrisy.

It is truly saddening when I see so many formerly courageous Conservative voices grow so fat and lazy at the public trough that they feel the need to pander for votes. It is saddening to see them become so isolated from their constituents that they forget who and what sent them to Congress in the first place.

It is disturbing to see so many former Conservative lions evolve into weak, spineless old men who are more concerned about the possibility of losing their ride on the taxpayer's gravy train than they are about doing that which is right and principled.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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