I don't think I understand their strategy, but as long as the Republicans want to continue to distract voters from real issues by focussing on fake news, I'm all for it. Because I'm positive there isn't a single Democrat or moderate voter saying "Huh? Mosque near Grand Zero? Ok, then I'm voting Republican." I guess this is just to galvanize the tiny minded tiny base of the Republican party so they will get out and vote, and apparently galvanizing the base of the Democrats at the same time, with their race baiting. So, I guess I don't see the point of their contrived mosque protest.
Huh? What's that? Major Financial Reform & Jobs Package bills passed? Combat troops are pulling out of Iraq? Nevermind! Look over here! They're going to put a gym and a culinary school in an old coat factory a couple blocks from Ground Zero! ....for Mooslims!? There's going to Islamic point guards 250 feet away from where the towers fell! We should do something about this! Like, say, invade an Islamic country in the middle east and free them from tyranny and let them thrive under a new democratic government! No, who would ever get behind that? Not anybody in this country, because they're muslims after all. We would never support premptively invading a soverign Islamic country so a bunch of dirty muslims would live happier in freedom. Now I see that this gym/chef school/mosque really is a big deal! That must be why
Fox News only spent 10 minutes covering the Iraq combat withdrawl, and the rest of the time covering this major just-breaking important news story about a mosque being built in lower Manhattan, which has been going through a permit and approval process for 6 years now. Phew! What would we ever do without Fox News keeping us all up to date on the current most important news stories right before election time.
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