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Well, that’s what Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana says.

“We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we’re going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we’re going to have to win that battle, we’re going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things.”

Don’t you love it when complex issues are framed and simplified into clean black and white terms.  Your choice has come down to voting Democratic and perpetuating a godless, socialist society or voting Republican and returning to a time of milk, honey and Christian faith.

It’s a clear cut choice.  I hope those pesky Muslims and gay folks are listening.

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This is how sick it’s gotten.  A Pew poll finds…

…that 18% of Americans say the president — who, it should be said for the record, is a practicing Christian — is a Muslim. That’s up from 11% who said the same thing in March of last year.

At the same time, a new poll from Time magazine shows a widespread distrust of Islam among Americans, and an overwhelming opposition to the Cordoba House project in Manhattan. The Time poll also found that 24% of Americans say Obama is a Muslim.

What more can you say about those 24% of Americans aside from calling them horribly misinformed?  Well you can say this: at least one in four Americans is a complete moron.  One does not have to be a news junkie or an Obama fan to at least be aware that the President is not a Muslim.  Hate his policies or his skin color.  Call him a nazi, socialist, communist dog if it makes you happy.  But when you do, at least attempt to get the facts straight.

When you stop to realize that this same 24% of Americans have the right to vote, it becomes crystal clear as to why ignorance is Republican’s best friend come November.  And you can rest assured that Fox, Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative media will be doing their part in keeping the sheeple stupid.

Bleeeeeeat.

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With teabag candidate Marco Rubio refusing to state his position on Florida’s proposed Arizona-like immigration bill, this thought from blogger Armando Llorens is undoubtedly true.

It’s tough to be a Latino Republican – you can’t endorse hating yourself, but you can’t really reject it either.

And Republicans are not helping themselves by running fruitcakes in place of serious candidates.

A Republican state house candidate from northern Florida is standing by her proposal to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants that would “collect enough illegal aliens until you have enough to ship them back.”

Marg Baker, who’s one of three GOP candidates running for the nomination for Florida’s 48th district, made the announcement earlier this month at a meeting of the 9-12 Project, Glenn Beck’s political activist group.

“We can follow what happened back in the ’40s or ’50s [when] I was just a little girl in Miami and they built camps for the people that snuck into the country,” Baker said.

“Because they were illegal, they put them in the camps and they shipped them back,” Baker said, to applause.

Her pronouncement “stunned” the district’s Republican incumbent, Peter Nehr.

It gets more bizarre by the day.  The election of Barack Obama now has every xenophobic nitwit who ever dreamed of being a politician crawling out from beneath their rocks and running as Republicans.  There was a time when radical ideas like Baker’s were only mentioned to friends and family.  Now they’re shouted from podiums and people applaud.  Frightening.

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It just never ends.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”

“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Maes said in a later interview that he once thought the mayor’s efforts to promote cycling and other environmental initiatives were harmless and well-meaning. Now he realizes “that’s exactly the attitude they want you to have.”

“This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said.

He added: “These aren’t just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to.”

Maes said in a later interview that he was referring to Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international association that promotes sustainable development and has attracted the membership of more than 1,200 communities, 600 of which are in the United States.

It should not surprise you to know that Maes is the Tea Party favorite.  Have teabaggers ever met a kook they didn’t like?

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