These Republicans Are Confusing On Affirmative Action

Pat Buchanan has an interesting column about President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Buchanan, who is so much of a right-wing extremist he almost makes Fox News look fair and balanced, seems to have an interesting perspective when it comes to affirmative action.

Of course, I always thought conservatives were opposed to affirmative action, quotas and preferences.

I thought that until I read this excerpt of a recent column written by Buchanan as pointed out by Media Matters for America as Buchanan seemingly objected to too many Jews on the high court:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?

But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.

Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian or Polish Catholic, though these ethnic communities once gave the party its greatest victories in the cities and states of the North.

What happened to the party of the Daleys, Rizzos and Rostenkowskis?

And not in nearly half a century has a Democratic president nominated a white Protestant or white Catholic man or woman.

It seems that Buchanan is OK with affirmative action as long as it is different ethnic white or religious groups (he doesn't seem as open to Jews right now).

But, when it comes to people of color and Jews, individuals like Buchanan all of a sudden become opposed to preferences, quotas, affirmative action and all of the other stuff they attack.

Does this mean Pat Buchanan will now advocate for black women who have been completely excluded from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nah.