Somebody has just publically gone against the leadership of the Republican Party:

A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.”

“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”

Both the popular radio host and former GOP House Speaker have suggested Obama’s pick for the high court is a racist while referencing a 2001 speech at Berkeley during which Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Now off you go to the woodshed airwaves John to bow down and beg forgiveness from the anointed one, King Rush.

UPDATE:

Here is the audio of  Cornyn’s  political suicide note: