Gingrich To Be Fitted For Pointy Hood?

If you were called out for "going too far" by a holocaust denier, Hitler admirer and a white supremacist like Pat Buchanan, you may as well just throw on a pointy hood and go for it. Newt Gingrich: Republican Party Grand Wizard?

While I'm about it, let's tackle that boring old issue of conservatives being racist, pretending they're not and then whining about how liberals call them racist all the time. I've lost count of the number of times a conservative has accused me of making unfounded accusations of racism because "that's what liberals do". It always reminds me of the scene in Cheech and Chong's "Nice Dreams" when Cheech gets on Chong for doing cocaine. Chong protests "Hey, wait a minute man, how come every time I do coke you say that 'every time you do coke' thing?"

Maybe the shrieking cons on the ground are too dumb to have heard of Lee Atwater or the GOP's Southern Strategy. Maybe they've forgotten how many of their crowd were saying "I could never vote for a black man" in 2008. Maybe they really are like Tommy Chong's character in "Nice Dreams" and are genuinely mystified why everyone keeps calling them racist every time they're racist. But Gingrich ain't.

Gingrich's recent statement equating Islam with Nazism may have come as a shock to some. But it shouldn't. Just check the nearest racist/conservative blog (here's one now) and see how Gingrich was being called a "RINO" a few months back for telling Republicans to ignore the fake controversy over the New Black Panthers. Preaching common sense over racist insanity made Gingrich fast lose cred with wingnuts so he started going all White Power to try and win them back. That's precisely what his whole Faustian hoo-hah about "Ground Zero Mosques" and Nazis is all about.

Of course losing support for not being racist enough then gaining support for being more racist should not in any way be misconstrued as a sign that conservatives are racist. That would just be liberal hysteria.