Sotomayor's radical base isn't happy that she is changing her beliefs for the hearings

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/17/sotomayors-liberal-critics/

Even some liberals are not enamored with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

It turns out that many on the left are insulted that Judge Sotomayor
has run away from her radical record to appear more moderate during
her Senate confirmation hearings.

Georgetown University Law Center's liberal professor Louis Michael
Seidman couldn't constrain his anger. "I was completely disgusted by
Judge Sotomayor's testimony today," he posted on Tuesday. "If she was
not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the
Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally
unqualified ... . Perhaps Justice Sotomayor should be excused because
our official ideology about judging is so degraded that she would
sacrifice a position on the Supreme Court if she told the truth. Legal
academics who defend what she did today have no such excuse."

Dahlia Lithwick, a contributing editor at Newsweek, complained on
MSNBC Wednesday night that Democratic senators and Judge Sotomayor
"are promising us that Sotomayor is going to be tough on crime, loves
guns, is a strict constructionist, is a minimalist. It is just
bizarre." Ms. Lithwick also was very upset that Judge Sotomayor and
the Democrats had publicly "bought into [Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Jr.'s] notion that judges call balls and strikes" without introducing
their own personal opinions. . . . .