A woman with a flag and a copy of the Declaration who identified herself as "Chaplain Desiree Bernstein" (also an anti-gay-marriage and anti-Khalil-Gibran-Academy protester) said, "I have been in this fight for a long time. I welcome your beautfiul faces and we can do it, But I'm gonna tell you now without any offense: if you think we're gonna do it without invoking the Almighty, you can forget it!" She invoked the 19th Century prayer campaign of Jeremiah Lanphier in which, Bernstein said, "10,000 Americans, much like us here today, gathered and cried out, 'Almighty God, we were not created for Socialism, we were not created for Marxism, we were not created for sharia law, which is already here!'" receiving huge cheers.
Forgive me for not being more artful but the reaction of regular Americans to displays like this is quite simply to conclude that these people are bat-shit crazy. Bat. Shit. And that of course is because, they are! These displays are sheer lunacy and they put on display for everyone in the country just how fringe are the mainstream views of the Republican Party. These are the ideals embraced by the political and movement leaders of the current GOP. This is where they are at as an intellectual movement.
Democrats should stoke, provoke and encourage these kinds of outbursts while reacting to them with the appropriate amount of scorn and derision. The base of the GOP (and that's about all that remains) is so far out of touch with reality and the mood of the country that it's laughable. Let them continue to carry on like this, it will only solidify the Democratic Party's hold on power. At the same time we need to point out at every opportunity just how ridiculous they are and how out of touch they are. We saw some of that from Rahm Emmanuel this morning regarding Rush Limbaugh and we should see more of it. Force this party and its leadership own the fringe.
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so where is your evidence that sharia is not alive and well in the US?
there are sharia courts in Texas, the ACLU is suing a Minn. school because it used Fed funds to teach Islam/sharia, there are Muslim Brotherhood groups that have admitted their goal is to further implement sharia in the US, and the bending over backwards for Islam that occurs on a daily basis has been ongoing for many years - only ramped up since 9/11
how about the Saudi funding of thousands of mosques in the US or the funding of school books to teach Islam and sharia?
even your boy Chuck Schummer is well aware of the threat of sharia and has called for the banning of the largest Muslim "civil" rights group in the US - but of course we are sure you'll just lump Chuckie in with the fringe...unfortunately if you push Republicans down the fringe they will simply land in your own lap
now, don't you have a new industry to bail out or another tax to raise? gotta keep up with the Marxists
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