A_MEN!
Of course it is. “See, there’s no difference between Zero and Romney.” Jihadist are not interested in democracy, as jihadist leaders have stated over and over again, and there’s never been any equating of jihad/theocracy with democracy, except by critics of that particular straw man.
The writer’s “secular government of Syria” is a dictatorship based on a the backbone of a particular Islamic sect, and isn’t anything besides that — and it’s definitely not secular.
The boogieman of a monolithic caliphate is ridiculous, because no predominantly Islamic countries can even claim to have a representative despotate and run their own affairs without continuous repression or worse. Nationalist movements helped destroy the last caliphate, and have derailed all attempts at political unity.
Michele Bachmann’s in the fight of her life against a political nobody, and that sure as s-— isn’t the fault of anyone but Michele Bachmann. McCotter was a nutjob, and failed to ensure his own place on the ballot for reelection — just exactly the kind of gross incompetence that would fit perfectly with another popular straw man around FR — that of the Secret Cabal of RINOs who run the Republican Party. Funny that he wasn’t championed by them. :’)