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It's suddenly fashionable on the left to praise George W. Bush.
Granted, the praise being offered is narrow in scope, limited only to Bush's non-inflammatory public comments on Islam in the wake of 9/11, and backhanded in nature, with his example supposedly demonstrating the failure of today's Republicans -- with their Muslim-baiting response to the "ground zero mosque" -- to meet even a modest standard of responsibility in their own rhetoric.
But the idea behind the praise is big in scope: that, as Matthew Yglesias put it in Sunday's Washington Post, that the post-Bush GOP is engaged in an "abrupt slide toward xenophobia" that the party's Bush era leadership rejected:
For GOP, Islamophobia is the new anti-Communism
Seeded on Mon Aug 9, 2010 9:48 AM EDT
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That Miller, who supports abortion and gay rights, found common ground with Robertson on Bush’s war on terror illustrates the political power of Islamophobia for the GOP. In many ways, it has become the glue that anti-Communism used to be: a demon that fundamentalist Christians and white ethnic voters from outside the Bible Belt (Reagan Democrats used to be the term for them) can both agree to curse.
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#1 - Mon Aug 9, 2010 9:49 AM EDTNeither party is offering much to get excited about these days and the Ground Zero Mosque has been a rare beacon of emotional response. It is whipping up the GOP base like crazy. All you have to do is lie your way into a membership at Resist Net and read a few of the comments and you will see that the furvor over this planned place of religious worship is boilng over. You will also see how bland and vague talking points exist in place of logic and reason for why it should not be built. Then you see all the comments about throwing bacon on the constuction site or releasing hogs. You know, real grown up solutions for this alleged problem.
As for the Dems who are joining this band wagon. Well, their party is currently swamped by two un-winnable wars. I think that by attacking this mosque that maybe they are channeling their frustration over the wars to something they think is more winnable. I don't know. I can't see a single (constitutional) reason why this mosque should not be built.
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Thank God that our first amendment protects all from the haters and rabble rousers
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#2 - Mon Aug 9, 2010 11:23 AM EDTFor GOP, Islamophobia is the new anti-Communism
And air is what we breathe. This is news to someone?
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