Watch Out for Those Right-Wing Christian Terrorists!

So, a bomb almost went off in New York's Times Square last week. Word quickly came out that the person of interest in the attack was a naturalized American citizen originally from Pakistan who had just returned after spending five months there. What was the reaction of the chattering classes?

--New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the identity of the bomber: "If I had to guess twenty-five cents..., homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something." Ah yes, because opponents of the health care bill are in the habit of blowing up cars and buildings.

--New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler gives his expert opinion as well: "Whether the guy who did this, or the people who did this were with some Islamic terrorist group or whether they were some right-wing nut group or whether they were by themselves, in one sense it doesn't matter." Of course not. Islamic terrorists, Republicans, the Christian Right -- they're all the same!

--MSNBC terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann: "The potential culprits -- it's a wide range, I think it's fair to say that the presumption is that it's more likely to be a homegrown group. Whether it's Al-Qaeda group, a right-wing group, whether it's somebody else." Hmmm...like maybe a left-wing group?

--MSNBC's Contessa Brewer on Stephanie Miller's radio show: "There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country.... There a lot of people who want to use terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry." If only the bomber were a right-wing Christian, it would be very politically useful....

--On the O'Reilly Factor last night, O'Reilly asked liberal radio talk show host Alan Colmes about why Obama refuses to call this bombing an act of Islamic terrorism. Colmes countered by saying, "Wait a minute. We have a Christian militia who said I'm going to throw rocks through Democratic office buildings. Should we define that as Christian terrorism." Now I'm finally getting it. Right-wing Christians and Islamic jihadists are all the same. Some wacky militia person talks about throwing rocks through a building, and Muslim jihadists have attempted four mass killings on U.S. soil just since September. Sounds like Christian and Islamic terrorists are both a serious threat!!!

--Mayor Bloomberg had some additional words of wisdom after it was proven that the Times Square bomber was, in fact, an Islamic terrorist: "I want to make clear that we will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers. All of us live in this city. And among any group, there's always a few bad apples." This warning is clearly necessary due to the meteoric rise in violence against Muslims in the U.S. after previous terrorist attacks. Wait....there wasn't any. Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should be warning Muslims to stop killing American civilians?

Now, put these comments together with the Nazi and racism rhetoric of the left about the Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration and the Tea Party movement, and a disturbing picture is starting to emerge. Health care policy and government spending and illegal immigration and Islamic terrorism are serious policy concerns for our country, and it's important to be able to discuss them openly, honestly, and rationally. Unfortunately, that is becoming increasingly hard to do because the Left will not engage the Right on policy. All they want to do is yell "Racist"! They continue to falsely accuse Republicans of supporting the status quo on health care. They have no solution to the problem of illegal immigration and their only policy position on the issue is to claim Republicans are bigoted and racist against Mexicans. They make up racial incidents at Tea Party rallies out of thin air and then claim the entire movement is some kind of power play by white supremacists. They equate Christian fundamentalists and Muslim fundamentalists, despite the fact that Christian fundamentalists don't commit acts of terrorism, and they immediately play politics with any terrorist attack by using it as an excuse to attack "homegrown right-wing nuts." And I'm not talking about Daily Kos and Moveon.org. I'm talking about columnists from major newspapers, anchors and senior reporters on cable news channels, and top elected politicians such as big city mayors and members of Congress in leadership positions.

And yes, I include the President of the United States in that category too. Because Obama himself uses the same inflammatory rhetoric. Obama himself was quoted in a new book by Jonathan Alter as calling members of the Tea Party "teabaggers," an insulting and obscene sexual reference. He told flagrant lies about the Arizona immigration law, claiming that if you were Hispanic you could be arrested "just for walking down the street to get ice cream." He and his administration refuse to even use terms like "Islamic terrorism" or "jihad" or "radical Islam" for fear of offending Muslims, but his Department of Homeland Security has specifically singled out "right-wing militia groups" and "anti-abortion activists" as threats to our country's security. He has personally attacked everyone from Cambridge, MA cops to Sarah Palin to Fox News, which is far below his dignity as President. (I challenge my readers to point out one time in which President Bush EVER personally attacked private citizens, elected officials, his presidential predecessors, or news organizations during his 8 years in office.)

The political climate today is the most polarized and angry I have ever seen it. And the Left is primarily to blame for that. They are following a scorched earth policy of ramming through an unpopular, hard-left agenda on purely partisan votes, and then, with help from their pals in the media, demonizing ordinary citizens exercising their constitutional right to protest and speak out. If you are against illegal immigration or government-run health care, or if you believe Islamic terrorism is a serious threat, or if you are sympathetic to Tea Party ideals of limited government, then the Democratic Party and the White House consider you a racist, a bigot, and a threat to America. Of course, conservatives are becoming more and more outraged at these unfair charges, which just serves to increase the temperature of the debate.

It is vital that we as conservatives channel our anger into making every effort to vote out the bums and elect principled conservatives to the House and the Senate this year (and then the Presidency in 2012). I don't think we can take another 6 years of Democratic control.