Why can't we have a better press corps, vol. 549

Politico goes all out exposing Sotomayor as a gasp! supporter of campaign finance limitations:

The clarity of her support for limits on campaign fundraising and her background as a pioneering campaign regulator is raising eyebrows among election law experts who say her record is more substantial and explicit than that of any Supreme Court nominee since the dawn of the modern, post-Watergate campaign finance regime.

Even worse, she's adopted extreme positions!

But Bopp said her Suffolk Law Review article is more telling, showing that “she’s bought into the most extreme campaign finance reformer rhetoric. And considering that she has on occasions extolled the legitimacy of policy preferences guiding judicial decisionmaking, including her own, you’ve got to take her personal policy preferences seriously.”

Who's this James Bopp character?  Politico doesn't really disclose that, other than saying he's a "leading conservative attorney" who's argued some election law cases before the Supreme Court.

What Politico leaves out is that Bopp is the RNC's Vice Chair.  Even better, Bopp's a co-sponsor (along with Washington State's RNC member Jeff Kent) to have the Democratic Party renamed the "Democrat Socialist Party".   That's more than just being a conservative, that's a hard core partisan warrior, a true "dead ender".

A vigorous opposition to Sotomayor is to be expected from the party out of power.  Too bad the press corps can't even get the basics of affiliation identified.