Video: I love the smell of xenophobia in the morning

How'd we miss this?

Pat Robertson--who's never, ever had any designs to take over the U.S. government himself... well, no new plan in the last 24 hours (see photo above)-- was spooked by the election of the first Muslim to Congress last year. Now he's issued a call for churches to work to get Christians elected and to "stand up and not worry about the IRS, not worry about if you're gonna lose your tax exemption." To break the law, in other words. (Watch the video clip from his 700 Club program).

"The curse of God is to bring in people who don't share your point of view and then ultimately destroy your civilization."

Ah, the dangers of diversity. Sounds a lot like the Know-Nothing party of the 1850s, who were fearful of Irish and other Catholic immigrants.

Robertson probably would have signed up as a Know-Nothing back then. But many descendants of those same Catholic immigrants are now charismatic Catholic supporters of his TV program. Go figure.

Pat needs to reread William Kristol's April 2006 article in the Weekly Standard warning that populist Republicans are in danger of "turning the GOP into an anti-immigration, Know-Nothing party."

Meanwhile, we're all FreeSoilers here at The Door.


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