Excellent article by Malkin. I think that the immediate use of the "Islamophobia" card by Bush (and subsequent use of it by his lock-step sycophants) should be discussed as an issue entirely separate from the ports debacle. The ports debate is where it first emerged, but the fact that Bush would insinuate that about his own base, and the fact that so many Republicans would resort to use of the race card with nary a thought, is telling and disturbing all on its own.
He's used that rhetoric before, to attack critics of his illegal immigration fetish.