WATCH: "Is Sotomayor Smart Enough?" Attack Ad

As we all have heard, President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. And, as expected, the right wing were ready to pounce.

One of their lines of attack, as shown by this just released ad, is that Sotomayor isn't very smart despite her extremely impressive pedigree. Take a look.

Alright, that's not a real ad, but it might as well should be. And the line of attack, which began in Jeffery Rosen's mostly anonymously sourced column, is ludicrous.

She was valedictorian of her high school. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton. She then studied law at Yale, where she was the editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Maybe the problem is that most right wingers don't know what summa cum laude means. Probably not, though. Most likely, they're just desperately making stuff up to try to stop an extremely qualified nominee.

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Comments

[PatA]

The republican party lost the smartest member they had when my dad died. He had an 8th grade education and would have swam circles around their "gurus"......He is spinning in his grave right now because his party has turned into a bunch of talking heads who wouldn't be able to pour p*** out of a boot if the directions were written on the heel. (He was a real cowboy from Oklahoma)

[GarryK]

Great line! I never heard it before. But then, I've never been to Oklahoma.

All I know about Oklahoma, I learned in the movie 'An Officer and a Gentleman'.

[imfedup]

Phi Betta Kappa? That was intentional, right?

[Matthew Filipowicz - Huffpost Blogger]

Ha. No, that was actually a typo. Thanks.

[jsgaetano]

Most right wingers thought GWB and Harriet Miers were huge intellectuals. Guess the "so wrong for so long" conservatives are Staying the Course.

[Matthew Filipowicz - Huffpost Blogger]

That's true. They have their story and they're sticking to it.

[allonfla]

teh ha ha

[nk007]

For right wingers being smart is being able to parrot right wing nonsense. So let's see all those smart Republicans: Clarence Thomas (an average student with minimal judicial experience); their gurus: Rush Limbaugh (college drop out); Dick Cheney (flanked out of Yale); George Bush (legacy student with a "C" average); and of course Bush's brain Karl Rove (another drop-out). Why does the media let these people get away with all this BS?

[Matthew Filipowicz - Huffpost Blogger]

Yeah, right? It's nuts.

[We-Are-The-Ones]

Other than Clarence Thomas what do that all have in come? White.

Bunching them all together, they all have p*nises (or at least they should).

Mediocrity is the GOP.

[ObamacratInCA]

Perfect.

[Matthew Filipowicz - Huffpost Blogger]

Glad you liked it.

[ihavenobias]

Awesome!

[Matthew Filipowicz - Huffpost Blogger]

Thanks!