Attack the Purple Elephants.
The controversy over some of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's comments have been led by leaders in the Republican Party - leaders like former Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, and former drug addicts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Notice a pattern here?
The Republicans are sending people they deem expendable on a mission against a moderate judge, much like the Army sent expendable convicts on a suicide mission to attack a German staff retreat in the 1967 movie.
Notice that the people smearing Sotomayor are all disgraced Republicans - crooked torturer Cheney, philandering crook Gingrich, nativist nutball Tancredo, junkie talk show hosts Limbaugh and Beck.
They're distractions - they're unimpeachable because they're already the worst of the worst - irredeemably corrupt sleazemongers whose political careers are over or never existed. Don't attack THEM.
Instead, question Republican Senators from purple states and Joe Lieberman about whether you want to be associated with these scumbags during your next election. Kit Bond, George Voinovich, John Ensign, Judd Gregg, Richard Burr - do you want to be associated with the sleazy likes of Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich (who makes Rod Blagojevich look like a piker in the corruption realm)?
Do you want black-and-white campaign commercials with scary music associating you with these scumbags during your next election? If not, disassociate yourself from the junkies and crooks and vote to approve Justice Sotomayor.