Scarborough: Don’t let Gingrich and ‘the voices of hate’ win, The Raw Story, August 23, 2010, by Daniel Tencer, used with permission, quoted verbatim:

Republicans are going to be embarrassed at the way they’ve opposed a mosque — known as Cordoba House or Park51 — that’s planned near Ground Zero, according to one conservative host.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough told Republicans Monday that they should “speak out against Newt Gingrich and the voices of hate.” While he was at it, Scarborough threatened to leave the GOP for a party “that actually believes in small government.”

Last week, Gingrich compared supporters of the mosque to Nazis. Appearing on Fox & Friends, Gingrich said, “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.”

Prior to that, Gingrich argued that the mosque shouldn’t be built near Ground Zero until churches and synagogues are allowed in Saudi Arabia.

“This is demagoguery of the first order,” Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, said Monday. “And people in the Republican Party need to separate themselves from these voices.”

“And I talk to you, my Republican brethren,” he said into the camera. “I don’t know how much longer you’ll be my brethren. I’ll be honest. I’m looking for a conservative party that actually believes in small government and not engaging in Wilsonian wars but that’s another discussion.”

“I’m just talking, you know, as a friend,” Scarborough continued. “I promise you this. You’re going to be embarrassed. You’re going to look back two, three, four years from now and this is going to be dark blot on your record if you don’t speak out against New Gingrich and the voices of hate.”

“This is an embarrassment and you need to speak out against it,” he said.

Opponents of the mosque protested in lower Manhattan Sunday. Daisy Khan, the wife of the controversial imam backing the Islamic center, said Sunday that opposition was “like a metastasized anti-Semitism.”

MSNBC’s Willie Geist told Scarborough that the opposition is proof that anti-Muslim sentiment is worse now than after Sept. 11, 2001.

“It shows us that we are probably farther backward that we were maybe even nine years ago in our interfaith relations,” said Geist.

Scarborough Argues Against Gingrich, GOP Bigoted Demagoguery on MSNBC:

"Deplorable, It Is Sick Politics:" Joe Scarborough, appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, discusses Newt Gringrich’s ‘Nazi’ comments about the ground zero mosque. — 4:51

Newt Gingrich is the new Joe McCarthy in American Politics:

For those of you who don’t remember, from the Wikipedia article on “demagoguery”: “Joseph McCarthy (was a) U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. A poor orator, he rose to national prominence during the early 1950’s by accusing a number of politicians and other individuals of being either communists or communist sympathizers. He presented himself as being above reproach while anyone who questioned or disagreed with him he branded as disloyal to the US government. Ultimately his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate in 1954 and to fall from popularity.”

Comment by Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans: Newt, I never thought very highly of you, but how low you’ve sunk! According to my friend Linda, the concensus on MSNBC’s Morning Joe is that Newt is mainly out to turn a buck selling his books and this is publicity. There was discussion that (of course) he has been prominently mentioned as a Republican Presidential candidate, but if were doing that, he’s alienating too many Reagan Democrats, Independents and fiscal Republicans with this grandstand act on the ground zero mosque. And he just finished a similar grandstand act on "family values" and homosexuality back at the beginning of August. No, Mr. Gingrich apparently is just shamelessly trying to make a buck. And think of the forces he has loosed in America, he and his cohort in bigotry Sarah Palin! Freakin’ idiots! ~ Paul Evans

JUICY: See Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich Makes Mistake of Leaving Comments Open on his “Defense of Marriage” Post, AlterNet on Evans Liberal Politics, August 6, 2010, by Joshua Holland.

See Muslim center dispute sparks New York rallies, Reuters, August 22, 2010, by Edith Honan and Chris Michaud.

See Imam’s wife: Mosque opposition like ‘metastasized anti-Semitism, The Raw Story, August 22, 2010, by Daniel Tencer, excerpt quoted verbatim:

Lower Manhattan mosque part of ‘Americanization’ of Islam, Daisy Khan says

The wife of the imam behind the Cordoba House Muslim community center in Manhattan says the opposition to its construction goes “beyond Islamophobia,” likening it to a “metastasized anti-Semitism.”

“We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized anti-Semitism,” Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour. “It’s not even Islamophobia. It’s beyond Islamophobia, it’s hate of Muslims.”

The interview took place as supporters and opponents of the mosque protested in lower Manhattan on Sunday, with police keeping the two groups blocks apart.

Khan was joined on ABC’s This Week by Rabbi Joy Levitt, head of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Levitt said that “some part” of the opposition to the mosque “feels very familiar.”

Watch and Read on Politico: Newt Gingrich compares mosque to Nazis, (with Fox News Video) – 20 seconds.

Older but Important: Stewart: Gingrich wants US to descend to Saudi Arabia’s standards of tolerance, The Raw Story, August 11, 2010, by David Edwards.

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See Republicans hot, cold on Constitution, depending on what’s at stake, AP on The Raw Story, August 23, 2010, by Associated Press, excerpt quoted verbatim:

Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn’t care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists.

This hot-and-cold take on the Constitution is surprisingly common within the GOP, particularly among those like Broun who portray themselves as strict Constitutionalists and who frequently accuse Democrats of twisting the document to serve political aims.

Republicans have proposed at least 42 Constitutional amendments in the current Congress, including one that has gained favor recently to eliminate the automatic grant of citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

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