A new poll of more than 2,000 self-identified Republican voters finds that more than half believe or are at least suspicious that Obama “wants the terrorists to win.”
I’m not optimistic about how those Republicans view US Muslims in general.
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Analysis of ‘West Asian’ voting patterns in most recent US elections at Open Left. An example:
Money quote: “It is simply astounding that Republicans have been able to take their relationship with several different communities who have ties to this region and alienate so many, so well, so quickly. “
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The US Republican party launched its clunky new error-riddled website today. A cavalcade of screw-ups ensued.
In a gambit to make the party look diverse, almost half the people listed on a ‘Republican heroes’ page were African Americans (even though only 2 percent of blacks are registered Republicans). It also listed baseball great Jackie Robinson as a “great Republican” – even though Robinson was a registered independent who denounced the “hatred” evident at the 1964 Republican party presidential convention: “one of the most unforgettable and frightening experiences of my life.”
Also prominent among said screw-ups was listing the “Iraw war” as a Republican accomplishment.
Five months later, in March 2003 President Bush ordered 250,000 U.S. troops into Iraw.
The phrase, “meanwhile, in a different universe” comes to mind…
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Florida Republicans shoot ‘Muslim’ targets at meeting.
South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
The GOP (Republican) candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with “DWS” written next to its head.
Wasserman Schultz declined comment, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called the Tuesday event “extremist” and “sexist.”
Robert Lowry, who’s vying for Wasserman Schultz’s seat, initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake.
Others refused to apologized for the Southeast Broward Republican Club event, featuring assault rifles and handguns. A conservative activist said they should stand up for their beliefs in the heavily Democratic county.
Update:
Here’s a screengrab of the target being used:
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Check out video of the shooting event here.
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Texas: 11th Congressional District candidate calls for end to Muslim immigration.
Big Country congressional hopeful Canyon Clowdus wants no more Muslim immigration to America. But he doesn’t want to stop at the stance he outlined to radical blog “Dr. Bulldog and Ronin,” which endorses him for 11th Congressional District representative.
“It’s not just them,” the conservative Republican told a reporter Sunday night. “They need to check all immigrants. They used to assimilate.”
Instead, immigrants retain their beliefs, hurting America, Clowdus, a Marble Falls businessman, said.
Clowdus wants to halt Muslim immigration to stop what the blog termed a “stealth Jihad” and “creeping sharia” to replace the Constitution with Islamic religious law.
Clowdus’ motto: “Let’s put God back in government!”
Clowdus’ campaign website seems to say that George Washington wasn’t very bright, but he was a good man, and it’s the same diff’ for Clowdus.
George Washington was not elected our first president because he was a “mental giant” as Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin were considered to be, but because he was a “moral giant“. Many of our elected officials simply do not want to act on the taxpayers best interest in fear of making enemies, in turn, not getting re-elected. We need leaders in Washington that will fight without concern of re-election or any loss to themselves. Fight for what is right…fight as “moral giants“ for OUR great nation.
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Republicans practicing taqiyya in the US healthcare debate.
One vocal attendee was a woman named Heather Blish, who identified herself as “just a mom from a few blocks away” and “not affiliated with any political party.” When interviewed by the local NBC affiliate, Blish insisted she was not a member of the Republican Party. “I left the party,” she said. Blish’s statements, however, are distortions. From NBC’s report:
Her LinkedIn page shows something different. She was the vice chair of the Republican Party of Kewaunee County until last year. She worked on the John Gard campaign, who ran unsuccessfully against Kagen last year. And it says she’s a part of the Republican Party for Kagen’s district, as well as the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and the Republican National Committee.
Her LinkedIn page shows she’s a graduate of Faith Academy (there are several in Wisconsin, but they all aim to provide a “quality Christian education.”) Count taquiyya among the good Christian values…
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For the modern GOP, it’s a return to the “white voter strategy.”
With Republican party leaders so constrained by ideological blinders that none of their positions is likely to produce gains among non-white minorities, especially Hispanics, the GOP is finding it has no real alternative but to revert to a “white voter” strategy.
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More racist Facebook page comments discovered by Audra Shay, the top candidate in the race to head national Young Republicans political group (post on the first set of comments here).
* In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, Shay replied, returning to the “LOL” style that she employed after the “coons” comment: “What no ‘Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome [sic] of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol.”
She picked up the thread again the next morning with a clarification and a new insight. “Apparently I could not spell last night. I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.”
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Yet another rising Republican star busted for racism.
Last Wednesday, Audra Shay, the Bobby Jindal-supported shoe-in to be the new leader of the Young Republicans was engaged in an exchange with some other members of that group on her Facebook page. A Facebook page friend posted the following:
Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.
Shay weighs in on the comments a few minutes later: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
Several other Young Republican Facebook friends challenged the use of the word ‘coon’ (but not the comment about Muslims). Shay subsequently ‘de-friended’ the commenters who challenged the racist slur, but kept her friendship link with the racist commenter.
The two comments directly below the boxed comments are worthy of attention too. “Obama faces” (with a wink) is more racist reference, and the comment about ‘Liberal’s (sic) shooting themselves in the foot’ is ridiculous in this context…
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Americanists believe that any statement from the President that fails to build up and anoint Mousavi as the preferred candidate is discouraging to Mousavi and his supporters, because they apparently cannot grasp that being our preferred candidate is to be tainted with suspicion of disloyalty to the nation.
It is strange how nationalists often have the least awareness of the importance of the nationalism of another people. Many of the same silly people who couldn’t say enough about Hamas’ so-called “endorsement” of Obama as somehow indicative of his Israel policy views, as well as those who could not shut up about his warm reception in Europe, do not see how an American endorsement of a candidate in another country’s election might be viewed with similiar and perhaps even greater distaste by the people in that country.
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Planet conservative: When alternative narratives become alternative realities.
Yesterday, Charles Krauthammer accepted the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, an annual award given by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. In his acceptance speech, Krauthammer lauded Murdoch and Roger Ailes for creating an “alternate reality” for its viewers:
KRAUTHAMMER: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by the rise of Fox News.
It’s so healthy for a democratic countrty when voters act on the basis of an imaginary world.
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Short video based on text from Glenn Beck’s book, The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland, rated PG-13. Every word in the video is lifted from Beck’s book.
Remember, as Glenn writes in text subsequent to that excerpted in the video:
“Please do not refer to us as an ‘incestuous’ couple. Keep the hate language to yourself. We prefer to think of the gift we have been given as ‘familial love.’”
Fox News pundits like Glenn Beck represent your conservative values.
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I’ve been largely ignoring the US political conservative movement since the election, but Juan Cole has the round-up of its proponent’s absurd behavior during Obama’s recent trip abroad.
The spectacle of their spokesmen (US political conservatives) misunderstanding English, hyperventilating over dark suspicions of surrender of sovereignty or reeducation camps, condemning a Muslim country like Turkey for setting a bad example by being insufficiently theocratic, and engaging in mock auto-da-fes to illustrate their inner rage, raises the question of whether the Republican Party is having a collective nervous breakdown.