“Will the Republicans capitalize on this?”
-—no, they won’t. There are very few (R) Congressmen who’ve been relatively strong on this, and in NY itself only Peter King is getting any notice.
The Establishment Republican official stance (of those already in office) on it is to ignore it hoping it will go into a lengthy holding pattern where nothing decisive happens, just more unconvincing rhetoric from both sides in a point/counterpoint where both sides play it by ear.
RINOs in office are in no position to get Tea Party or COnservative-backed candidates to be too vocal about it; they’ll do that on their own if they think it’ll help them in their OWN campaigns===What have you heard from the great leader Michael Steele? NUTTIN’! Instead , last week , Ed Gillespie, former RNC chair, is quoted, sounding like a moderate Democrat, expressing hope that the issue will recede and that it WON’T become a decisive campaign issue, which I predicted it WOULD about two MONTHS ago. The people who are actually doing the legwork to get good candidates elected are the only ones who have the RIGHT to demand their candidates come out and address it clearly. I’m speaking as someone who’s working for a candidate and saw NOT A SINGLE NEW YORK Candidate speak at the Ground Zero rally yesterday, where I spent about 5 or 6 hours in the rain. No one except a CIty Councilman from outside the city, whose name I can’t recall. There are times when I think we’re going to have to handle the entire GZ Mosque issue ourselves: it is NOT going away, and only people NOT in office, and not angling to GET into office have enough cojones to tell it like it is.
Just before I read this, Mitchy Mitch was on Fox News “ President Obama says he is a christian, and I will take him at his word”
I would have preferred if Mitch had said he wanted to have sex with him. Useless sub human protoplasm.