What the current right has on offer is far worse than anything Bush put forward, which means that this election isn't even about whether we'll go back into the ditch. It's about whether a movement that's gone over a cliff will be rewarded for doing so. A victory for this style of conservatism will be a defeat for the kind of conservatism the country needs. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 8/23/10)
Our friend E. J. is very very worried about the state of conservatism. Thanks for your concern, E.J. We are just fine.
In short, the proposed community center is not just an issue on which Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden agree. It is also one in which opponents of the center are playing into the hands of Al Qaeda. (Nicholas D. Kristof, NYT, 8/21/10)
The liberal narrative on the Ground Zero mosque is now evolving this way. If you are against the mosque, then you are with….bin Laden. And by the way, it’s not really a mosque; it’s an interfaith community center.
We wonder if Jews are welcome…..
So true RedStateVT. And here's Mark Halperin,
ReplyDelete"It isn't clear how the battle over the proposed center should or will end. But two things are profoundly clear: ...a national political fight conducted on the terms we have seen in the past few days will lead to a chain reaction at home and abroad that will have one winner — the very extreme and violent jihadists we all can claim as our true enemy."
The only appropriate politically correct response to the Islamists appears to be submission. Free Gitmo, surrender in Iraq, censor Southpark, build a victory mosque, and send them on junkets to the middle east. Why don't the liberals just get the prayer mat out already?