This sounds like a crock, surrounded by misdirection, wrapped in another crock

Sorry about the title. My vocabulary is failing me today. Plus, I can’t believe I’m writing so much about Sotomayor.

Speaking of whom, has anybody figured out her current stance on the Second Amendment yet?

On to the story: abortion activists say they’re concerned that Sotomayor might not be sufficiently loyal to the pro-choice cause.

President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has provoked concern from abortion rights advocates, who say they have seen no evidence that she supports upholding Roe vs. Wade.

Unlike most finalists for the high court opening, Sotomayor has never ruled on the issue. And in her only abortion-related decision, she did not come down the way activists would have liked.

…”I simply don’t know Judge Sotomayor’s view on Roe vs. Wade. I will be very concerned if the question is not asked and answered during the Senate hearings,” Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said Wednesday. “So far, no one has been able to give us an assurance of her views.”

Oh, please.

The whole idea that a far-leftist group like that might honestly oppose one of President Obama’s nominees is such utter hogwash that you could eat off that hog, it’s so clean.

At the very most, this is an attempt by this particular group to get a little more attention paid to them. They’re holding their breath until the administration talks to them, or gives them something, or makes them feel a little more important.

Or it’s a mild form of political ju-jitsu, to lessen the hyper-partisan nature of the debate. See? Even liberal groups aren’t rubber-stamping her! Not like those knuckle-dragging Republicans!

Or it’s a more involved form of political ju-jitsu: reading the first five paragraphs of the linked story might cause some conservatives – particularly pro-life-firsters – to leap to Sotomayor’s defense, thus giving those groups some buy-in to her confirmation. Lasting opposition from pro-choicers could translate to lasting support from pro-lifers, which would shift the confirmation balance easily into her favor.

Unless the whole Second Amendment thing blows up, that is.

I’m probably over-thinking all this. Probably. It’s just that the very suggestion that pro-abortion groups might oppose Obama’s nominee is so completely laughable that I’m having trouble staying in my seat.

Via Memeorandum