Jane Norton’s campaign gives Ken Buck an opportunity to call her a ‘racist’

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 9:11 pm, June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Ali Hasan, a supporter of Ken Buck and a Muslim, has taken advantage of a lousy editing job by Jane Norton's campaign to use an old tactic of the Democratic Party. He's calling Jane Norton a "racist" because her silly ad calling for an unlikely victory in the war on terrorism calls for a war on Islam.  Anybody with half a brain should have edited that headline, and anybody who understands the politics of America's war on terrorism knows that the war is against Islamic fanatics and terrorists. It's not a war on Islam. This is even though to the trained eye, most Muslims seem to tacitly support their terroristic peers. That is a valid perception because you don't see much of an outcry against the terrorists in Muslim countries or even among many American Muslims. Hasan is a true patriot, and he understands the politics of the war in America and in the Muslim world, but he won't admit that Muslims have and deserve a huge PR problem in America. Indeed, a lot of conservatives may be applauding Norton for saying we're in a war on Islam, because that's what it looks like to most Americans whether it should or not. Maybe Norton's pollsters told her that Americans think we're in a war on Islam and not just in a war on terrorism? So Hasan, a failed candidate for Colorado Treasurer and the state House of Representatives, definitely is blowing the Norton campaign's error out of proportion even though he has a point. The Norton campaign, as it has done in issuing press releases and making claims about Buck and the issues, has again failed to think through its attack on Obama. Sloppy staff work sinks sagging campaigns. And Norton has managed to offend any Muslims who might have been thinking about voting for her. That's probably a small number of Republicans. Obviously Hasan and his family haven't considered supporting Norton for a long time. So it seems that he  protests way too much.  Norton's no racist. That seems to be Hasan's favorite word. Hasan's name calling is as insulting, offensive and wrong as the idea that we're in a war against 57 Muslim countries and against Islam. That a Buck supporter is calling Norton a racist won't help Buck in the GOP primary.  I'm neutral in the Buck-Norton contest.

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