It seems to me that in the past week every blow-hard ass-hat Republican from Newt Gingrich down to Rick Scott, Sharron Angle, and Pudd'nhead Palin has joined the American Inquisition against Muslims (even though it's as reprehensible and un-Amaerican as fire-bombing abortion clinics, or fire-bombing black churches in the south, or shooting up a Jewish community center).
Given the fact that these Republicans don't whip up these controversies without coordinating their talking points, I wonder how long it's going to be before someone leaks a copy of the official talking points and polling data from Frank Luntz?
It seems to that the only hope the Republicans have for winning big in November is by distracting voters from realizing that the only ideas the Republicans have for ending the Bush Recession are the exact same ideas that created the recession. And, pandering to their base by whipping up mob hatred against a religious minority is one hell of a big distraction.