Let’s make two things absolutely clear: Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. And she will almost certainly be confirmed.

Many of us heard about her statement that a Latina woman would likely make a better decision than a white man. What many of you may not have heard is that more digging into her past public appearances show that that statement was not an outlier, but part of an extremely consistent pattern of thought.

Sotomayor not only believes that impartiality before the law may not be possible, she’s not even sure that it’s desirable.

In comparison to others at her level in the federal judiciary, she’s clearly of less-than-average intelligence and competence, with a trail of poorly-written and poorly-conceived rulings followed by repeatedly being overturned by the Supreme Court and being criticized for shoddy legal thinking even when not overturned. She is, by her own admission, where she is because of affirmative action. The Supreme Court is no place to demonstrate the Peter Princple.

One other thing to be clear about: Sotomayor’s nomination is not an accident. Her repugnant views about how a judge should approach decisions were no secret and she was nominated by Obama because of them, not despite them. Obama also does not believe that justice should be blind. During the presidential campaign, I said that the Supreme Court was the only reason to vote for McCain (rather than voting Libertarian – I was always clear that nobody should vote for Obama.) Sotomayor proves that warning (which is not to say that it was wrong to vote Libertarian). She is the latest foray in Barack Obama’s mission to remake the United States in the vision of the radical leftist Saul Alinsky and his communist America-hating father-figure Frank Marshall Davis.

One can only hope that Sotomayor’s tenure on the Court is a short one and that she’s prevented from destroying the fabric of our nation to the degree that she wants to by making every decision through the filters of race and gender and turning “equal protection under the law” on its head.

Even Democrats should be ashamed of Sotomayor, but of course you’ll never hear even a whisper of such thoughts…