Back on February 2 (before "Super Tuesday), I analyzed the problems of the Republican party (available here). About a week later, televsion's self-appointed pundits started saying exactly the same thing I posted.

I'm not egotistical enough to think that someone read my post and decided to poach it (well, actually I am, but it's a long shot at best). But the fact that I was blogging it shortly before those pundits were saying it on TV is very interesting.

Perhaps the networks, broadcast and cable, are hiring the wrong people?

Awhile back I wrote about an anti-Semtitic incident in Indiana where a Republican politician told a group of Jews that they didn't count because they only made up 2% of the Indiana population. I called this the Republican "2% solution." This is how the incident appeared to the Jewish group:

[In Feb. 2006], the Indianapolis JCRC’s Jewish Lobby Day was held. Around 40 Jews from around the State of Indiana came to Indianapolis to lobby our state senators and representatives on a number of issues.

I didn't know this but last week was self-proclaimed "Islamo-facism awareness week," a right wing intolerance fest dreamed up by extremists Ann Coulter and David Horowitz. I only know that these fools were strutting around advocating intolerance because of an email I got from the organization Jews on First.

There is something so disgusting about the right wing fear of just about everything that isn't white, male, Protestant Christian. Ann Coulter is the perfect example of this. When we hear her condemning so-called Islamo-fascism, let's remember that she is the idiot who said right after 9/11 that:

"We should invade their [Muslim's] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

And what did she choose to advocate during her "Islamo-facism awareness week?" Anti-Semitism. Yes, she attacks Jews as part of her paranoia against Islam. Last week she told Donny Deutsch:

"we should throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians."

Ann Coulter also claimed that Christians want Jews "to be perfected" by converting to Christianity.

Missed this when it first came out at the beginning of August. But the National Jewish Democratic Council has brought it to my attention. Mitt Romney has criticized Democrats for being unable to "recognize evil." And yet Mitt Romney ALSO is calling for America to look to Hezbollah as a role model.

...in an article titled “Mitt Romney cited Hezbollah's social network as a model for U.S. diplomacy,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported on recent comments by GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney that Hezbollah’s “kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world …” Today, the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) strongly criticized Mitt Romney for his praise of Hezbollah and released the following statement from Executive Director Ira N. Forman:

The National Jewish Democratic Council is eyeing Mike Huckabee as quite possibly the most dangerous and fanatical of all the Republican presidential hopefuls, combinging Christian fundamentalism with corruption.

The rise of Huckabee should be a major concern both for Republicans (who now have another very failed candidate as their potential nominee) and for Democrats (who should be concerned whenever an extreme candidate gets a whiff of the Presidency).

...Here are a few concerns about his record:

- In June, Huckabee issued a call to arms to religious conservatives, urging them to vote on the very social issues that are undermining the wall between church and state.

- Also in June 2007, Huckabee said that "most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo ..."

- In May 2007, Huckabee went on record as not believing in evolution.

Well, that didn't take long. In the first news cycle after Steve Harrison's announcement for Congress in the Thirteenth District, Vito Fossella's lackeys are playing the cheese-eating surrender monkey card.

Harrison:

“I am running because I believe we have to build a majority of Democrats in Congress to stop this ill-conceived war,” said Harrison. “I absolutely believe the war in Iraq was wrong, and I would prefer to not even use the term war on terror.”

Fossella flack:

"Surrender Steve may be the only person left in America who doesn't believe that we're fighting a war on terrorism," Kay said after she learned of Harrison's comments.

Got that? But it gets better.

How pissed are you at Bush? How pissed are you that he ignored the warnings of 9/11, allowing the deaths of our fellow New Yorkers? How pissed are you that Bush has publicly said he doesn't care about capturing Osama bin Laden?

Well, our neighbors in New Jersey are asking us to help them show Bush he isn't welcome in our neck of the woods. This comes from some contacts I have in New Jersey, and is being organized by the NJ Democrats. I urge people to try and attend. I want Bush to feel as uncomfortable as possible anytime he gets anywhere NEAR New York. Here's the flyer: