Some folks are wise and some are otherwise

For excellent reasons, conservatives have been comparing Sonia Sotomayor's so-called "compelling background" with those of a number of highly qualified judges who overcame serious obstacles on their paths to success before having their ascent to a District or Circuit court sabotaged by Democrats. Other parallels have been drawn between her background and that of minority politicians and political advisors. As a party, Democrats have enthusiastically displayed their intended lack of racial bias by viciously attacking members of minority groups who happened to be not only highly accomplished but also conservative in their viewpoints.

Sotomayor and her sponsor, Barack Obama, have gone out of their way to wrap the judge in the flag of a Bronx tenement, but, as J. C. Arenas at American Thinker pointed out:

Sotomayor can keep playing the poor, underprivileged Boricua, but let's be real, she's spent her childhood in private school environments, early adulthood amongst the Ivy League elite, and most of her adulthood as a corporate attorney and judge living in Greenwich Village, where the average household income tops that of the entire NY metro area and 98% of the residents are White. I guess that's what she means by her rich experience.

But step a micron or two outside the box and compare the "richness" of Sotomayor's life experience with that of a woman who is neither black nor a Latina, as briefly described by Victor Davis Hanson (via Snaggletoothie of the Loyal Opposition):

I would have thought that a female candidate for vice president who came from Wasilla, Alaska, and with three children at the time volunteered to get involved in community projects, then served on the city council (and as a member of a small town I can assure you that being a mayor of a small town is no easy thing), and, after doing that, running for national office in Alaska as lieutenant governor, and serving on an oil commission, then being governor and having further executive experience-- that would resonate with women all across the United States. (Tip of the hat to Yukio Ngaby at Critical Narrative)

Plus, I might add, running for vice president of the United States with a newborn infant on her shoulder. Not to mention being the youngest, and first female, governor in the history of her state, the mother of five children (one of whom is serving in the infantry in Iraq, one of whom is a teenage mom, and one of whom has Down Syndrome), who can run a professional fishing vessel and hunt wild game, and who is married to a man who won the Iron Dog five years in a row and built their family home. She has played hardball with major oil companies, both domestic and foreign, and won, with excellent results for her state's and our nation's energy future, once we get around to using our own oil and natural gas resources.

Yeah, that's a boring, substandard story. Ask any Democrat.