Alternate Reality: LA Times Claims Mosque Issue is Dividing GOP

As we see the Democratic Party coming unglued by the divisive Ground Zero Victory Mosque, leave it to the pinheads at he LA Times to veer off into the Land of Make Believe by claiming it's dividing the GOP.

Boy are these lamestream media types predictable.

As top Republicans including House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich attack plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near the destroyed World Trade Center site, a larger schism is opening up in the GOP over the inflammatory issue.

Some Republicans fear that pressing the issue carries risks, diverting attention from bread-and-butter issues and undercutting the party's efforts to broaden its base — just as it is losing ground among other ethnic minorities such as Latinos.

"This is a distraction from a winning game plan," said Grover Norquist, a conservative activist who a decade ago worked with President George W. Bush and his political guru, Karl Rove, to cultivate Muslim American and Latino voters to try to build a more diverse and durable Republican majority. "It is very stupid, when Republicans are poised to win an overwhelming victory in November over Democratic spending, to focus attention on this issue."

Sure, let's take advice from Norquist, a vurtual nonentity in today's GOP. He worked with Rove and Bush a decade ago?

So what?

Norquist, whose wife is Muslim, has emerged as the most outspoken foe of politicizing the mosque issue. But other Republicans — especially those focusing on the midterm election or in swing states — have taken similar stands.

Frankly, I haven't seen Norquist mentioned anywhere in the news these past several months in relation to the mosque, but sure enough he pops up in a rather dubious forum as well with an infamous Journolister.

In fact, check this search and tell me what sort of player Norquist has been in the debate? But hey, that's enough for the LA Time to use his as evidence the mosque issue will divide the GOP. Meanwhile we have Democrats running from the double-talking Obama, Harry Reid saying the mosque should be built elsewhere and Nancy Pelosi calling for investigations of opponents.

Yes, it's dividing the GOP, all the way to majorities in the Congress and Senate come November.