I'm Princeton '74. I have no memory of having met Judge Sotomayor, but I can say with some confidence that Princeton was a long way from comfortable with women, race, or much else that wasn't Old Boy.

About half of the eating clubs were still selective, and maybe five (of the dozen) were still single-sex. I heard as a freshman in 1970 a lot of complaints about coeducation; many of the male students bemoaned the loss of the "atmosphere" and "camaraderie" that obtained before women were admitted.

I do not think it was easy being a woman at Princeton before 1980 or so, doubly hard if you were minority, and triply hard if you weren't well-to-do. And she managed to win the Pyne Prize, the top undergraduate honor the school awards.

Alito was a member of CAP as well in the 70s.

From Wiki:

The primary motivation behind CAP was to limit the number of women admitted to the university. CAP also opposed affirmative action designed to increase minority attendance at the Ivy League institution. [1] CAP also exhibited strong support for Princeton's eating clubs, which were male-only at the time. [2] (Link dead as of 05:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

Stuart Taylor is clearly a CAP fellow traveller.

Well, this looks like the smoking gun that might finally trigger Sotomayor's withdrawal. Anyone who complained about "an institutional pattern of discrimination" at Princeton in 1974, after the university had already let in some women and minorities, is "clearly predisposed," as Taylor impartially and objectively points out, "to look for the worst, not the best, in the institution that had afforded her such opportunities."

Also, "la raza" means "burn this mother to the ground."

I hear she was a great admirer of that Martin Luther King fellow, who was another one of those "look for the worst" types.

I mean, it's not like Black people didn't have the right to vote. And there this fellow was, whining how they couldn't pass the voting test...

I hope that there are moderate Republicans out there who still want to save their party from becoming extinct and that can appeal to independents and moderate voters. The Republican diehards of Gingrich, Beck, Coulter, and Limbaugh are not going to revitalize their party, they are going to destroy it. Their obsession with social issues and their virulent, misguided, and false attacks on Obama's Supreme Court nominee are turning more and more voters off and unless more moderate voices can be heard and rise above the fray, the Coulters, Becks, Limbaughs, et al are going to consign the Republican Party to third rate status for a generation.

These diehards are making the majority of American people believe the Republican Party is anti gay, anti Hispanic, anti Black, anti women's rights, anti the environment and they do not understand it is 2009, not 1949. I am a moderate Democrat who has voted for Republicans in the past but everytime I see and/or hear some of these spokespersons for the Republican Party on t.v. or the radio it makes me want to run to the polls to pull the Democratic lever more than I ever have wanted to before. Someone, if they want to save the party, needs to tell Coulter, Beck, and Limbaugh to shut the hell up.

Mark: This is conservatism. If one party becomes the conservative party, then this is what they are.

Stuart Taylor: The thinking man's (and I do mean "man's") Rush Limbaugh.

Bill Campbell is right: this is inevitable....

Their obsession with social issues and their virulent, misguided, and false attacks on Obama's Supreme Court nominee... are going to consign the Republican Party to third rate status for a generation. -- Mark Jeffery Koch

And someone who works in the West Wing won't have to buy their own drinks for quite a while, either...

Um,excuse me, but the comments by Taylor have nothing to do with the gay issue. He comments exclusively on Sotomayor's apparantly justified bitching about there being nothing about Chicano or Peurto Rican culture. The homosexual bit is introduced in the comments section by someone named Amy. Unless Taylor has scrubbed his post, you're attacking him on the wrong charge.

I had always thought that liberalism was supposed to have something to do with freeing ourselves as much as possible from prejudice. If you're going to be serious about that, doncha think maybe you should get your facts straight?

Liberal intelligence indeed.

Mark: This is conservatism. If one party becomes the conservative party, then this is what they are.

Basically, yes. Much as I find the braying of the Republican party offensive, I am force to concede that white racist have a right to political representation just as much as everyone else. If we were a multi-party democracy, they could be ghettoized into a minor party, but the two-party system being what it is, they have to go somewhere. It may as well be the Republicans.

Um,excuse me, but the comments by Taylor have nothing to do with the gay issue. He comments exclusively on Sotomayor's apparantly justified bitching about there being nothing about Chicano or Peurto Rican culture. The homosexual bit is introduced in the comments section by someone named Amy. Unless Taylor has scrubbed his post, you're attacking him on the wrong charge.

I too am very concerned that Mark Jeffery Koch's comment, which does not mention Taylor but does mention Coulter, Beck, Gingrich, and Limbaugh, and which remarks for some reason that "these diehards are making the majority of American people believe the Republican Party is anti gay, anti Hispanic, anti Black, anti women's rights, anti the environment," is unfair to Stuart Taylor and therefore discredits The American Prospect and also all of liberalism forever.

Very concerned.

Dear MB,

Thanks for your support but "[Discredits] all of liberalism forever"? That's a pretty broad statement.

Liberals can be incredibly dishonest and arrogant jerks but liberalism itself, which is a philosophy and not a political grouping, will continue to be the best political philosophy in the long run. Two years ago we were all living in the wake of the Duke lacrosse case, which was about as self-discrediting as you can get, perpetuated by people who called themselves liberal but were actually being a bunch of pretentious, absusively bigoted know-nothing jerks. A little over a year-and-a-half later Barrack Hussein Obama was elected president so, I think we can rule out permanent damage.

Besides, Republicans are our main foils and lately they've been acting like a bunch of kamakazies. Right now, the biggest threat to liberalism is, ironically, Barrack Obama himself, who seems to have forgotten no small load of constitutional law.

the comments by Taylor have nothing to do with the gay issue.

Taylor does link to the letter Sotomayor signed about the anti-gay attack ("The Rights of All"), after complaining about her "predispos[ition] to look for the worst, not the best, in the institution that had afforded her such opportunities." So I think it's fair to characterize him as bringing up the gay issue.

Dear Matt W,

Sorry, but no sale. According to Taylor, assuming he's telling a straight (no pun intended) story, he linked to every letter Sotomayer wrote as a Princeton student to the publication in question. Since he made no comment one way or the other regarding the gay issue, I don't see how it's really relevant to the above post.

He graduated in 1970. What unit did this republican serve in during his tour in Vietnam?

Oh. He's a republican. I forgot.

This whole item is a big, slimy lie. I never said or implied I was offended by her defense of gays -- which in fact I admire. Nor did I criticize ANY of her other actions that you cite. I did take mild issue with her ludicrous attack on Princeton for "an institutional pattern of discrimination" designed to "relegate" Latinos "to oblivion."

P.S. I demand that you publish a retraction and apology at least as conspicuous as the malicious falsehood published above.

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Speaking as a sadly disappointed liberal, my guess is they won't as liberals are almost never ever wrong especially when they are.

Of course, the same is true, in spades, of conservatives.

Paging Dr. Orwell...

While ordinarily one might defer to Mr. Taylor's evident expertise in malicious falsehood, the fact of the matter is that the context in which he posted his link indicated that he regarded it as an example of Judge Sotomayor attacking Princeton. If your writings are full of derogatory innuendo, blame yourself if everything you say is parsed for derogartory innuendo.

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