Synthesizing The Lunacy
by digby
I was very cavalier about this when I first posted in a year ago. I said it was a fantasy. (Not that I thought they couldn’t come back — I just had no idea the Tea Party would be able to elect so many nuts.)But it’s turned out to be very real:
Taking the stage, Bachmann thanked Schlafly, calling her an inspiration as a mother who transitioned into conservative politics, and said she considered the conference “a farewell party for ACORN!” The community organization group, she said, was the first, not the last, weak link in the liberal establishment.
“Defunding the left is going to be so easy,” said Bachmann, “and it’s going to solve so many of our problems.” She praised James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, the people behind the ACORN sting. “Hannah and James used Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ — that’s the community organizer’s bible — against ACORN! Brilliant!”
Bachmann touched on the priorities of Republicans if they retook Congress in 2010, to “pass repealer bill after repealer bill,” to prevent the creation of a one-world currency, and to pull the government back from the “36 percent of private business profits” that she claimed it now controlled. And she said Michigan residents were “depressed enough” without Gitmo prisoners being relocated to state facilities where they could inspire more terrorists.
“This is where they learn conversion to Islam!” said Bachmann. “In the prisons!”
I have been wondering since 9/11 when the wingnuts would get around to really digging into that “Black Muslim” connection and they still haven’t managed to really nail it down, although they’ve been getting closer.
Cal Thomas edges even closer:
We are doing a poor job of fighting the terrorists at home if we continue to allow Muslim immigrants, especially from Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, into America. We won’t win this war if we permit the uncontrolled construction of mosques, as well as Islamic schools, some of which already have sown the seeds from which future terrorists will be cultivated. We won’t win this war if we continue to permit the large-scale conversion to Islam of prison inmates, many of whom become radicalized and upon release enlist in al-Qaida’s army.
That synthesizes the religiously intolerant, xenophobic, racism of the right wing in one short paragraph.
And these people are on the verge of taking over one of the two political parties of the most powerful nation in the world.
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