According to Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker, the Republican Party is being held hostage by a cadre of bigoted, conservative white people who refuse to acknowledge a simple truth:"Sonia Sotomayor represents the future, not Sarah Palin."In other words, for the Republican Party to have national appeal it needs to dump, in Tucker's opinion, the "God fearing white people of small town heritage" vision of America and embrace the "poignant tale" of successful minorities like Sonia Sotomayor.Indeed, for Cynthia Tucker the intellectual vision of many conservative white people simply ends at a person's skin color:"They explain a world in which white men no longer control all the levers of power -- in which an ‘uppity' black man could become president and a woman with a strange-sounding name could end up on the Supreme Court."According to Tucker, many of those who support Sarah Palin are simply motivated by an ugly resentment against...(Read Full Post)