I would think that the overwhelming majority of people outside of New York care more about the economy, unemployment, the wars, and the deficit than about a mosque. If the GOP makes this the core part of their campaign, when virtually all their opponents will be able to give a better answer than Obama did, then they’re making a mistake.
It shouldn’t be the core part of the platform but it should be a big step.
“...virtually all their opponents will be able to give a better answer than Obama did ...”
What would that answer be?
No one is suggesting they make this the "core" of their campaigns. But it can certainly be a potent part of the overall message. The vast majority of the nation opposes the mosque being built there. It is a simple thing to state that position and ask what your opponents position is. As Halperin points out, that leaves the Dems with 3 choices, none of them good.
Only a moron would make it the core of their campaign, but it should not be off the table. ?This illustrates very clearly how liberals hear “Muslim” and process that word as “warm, fuzzy-wuzzy persecuted minority” and conservatives hear it and think, “decent Muslim or the sort of guy who thinks Hamas is cool?”