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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 01:18 PM
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Prominent Muslim leaves GOP because of their bigotry
http://coloradoindependent.com/69449/colorado-gop-loses-hasan

Muhammad Ali Hasan, a member of the wealthy and influential Colorado Republican Hasan family and a past state House and treasurer candidate, said he is switching parties. Speaking at the University of Colorado-Boulder on his experience growing up Muslim in the American West and later in conversation with the Colorado Independent, Hasan said he is ending his affiliation with the party for the bigotry he believes has shaped Republican politics over the last year. The FOX News regular and founder of Muslims for Bush said he met recently with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the controversial Democratic leader won him over.

“I met her in Los Angeles. For a Republican that’s like He-Man Skeletor,” he said, referencing the Masters of the Universe cartoon arch-enemies. “I am impressed by her vision. She convinced me that the Democrats will work to protect and further the interests and opportunities of minority Americans. That matched with the politics of Reagan for me. He was a champion of the American dream, the idea of America as a shining city on a hill. He expanded opportunities through small business credits and amnesty for immigrants. It was all about opportunity.

“I have three top political heroes: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and now Nancy Pelosi. She has such a spine, like Reagan and Bush, they all have that in common: a spine of steel that comes from conviction.”

Major financial backers of conservative causes and candidates in the state and friends to national GOP leaders and successive Republican presidential administrations, the Hasans have publicly struggled with the post-Bush Palin-era GOP. Matriarch Seeme Hasan during the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate said she didn’t recognize the party. Ali Hasan’s defection comes in the wake of news that state GOP lawmakers will introduce tough Arizona-style immigration legislation and held a high profile hearing on the topic with a slanted roster of experts that featured almost no immigrant rights groups but several with ties to white supremecist organizations.

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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 01:23 PM
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1. Republicans = the party of exclusion
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 01:36 PM
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2. It took him this long to figure that out?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:45 PM
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10. Because Muslims, like Blacks aren't a monolithic group number one,
and number 2,.the Democratic Party's complicity in the imperial hegemonic war against Muslim/Arab-inhabited lands hasn't helped at all, not in the least bit.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:22 PM
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3. IIRC before the Iraq War the vast majority of American Muslims were Republicans...
...because of social issues.
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:29 PM
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4. Good news. Bad news.
Very good to see him wake up to the bigoted stances that have long characterized the GOP. Bad if he pushes the party more in the supply side economics of Reagan direction.

For today, I celebrate him throwing off his chains.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:33 PM
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5. Well, I'll welcome Hasan to our state Party...
Edited on Sat Dec-11-10 02:36 PM by Hawkeye-X
He's a big bundler, and I know a certain DU'er (hi Mike!) that has been bundling for many years and has told me how much hard work it is. And I REALLY appreciate hard work, and it will set the stage for the Colorado Dems to retake the House and kick out the teabaggers now that we have an "insider" in Hasan. (both state and federal level)

I just hope he's socially liberal. I can appreciate that he's a fiscal conservative as many of us Americans are - the Rethuglicans are cut and spend fuckwits, not us.

The Republican comments on the article are extremely nasty. Let's get these 'baggers cry.

Hawkeye-X
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:57 PM
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12. I hope it helps Dems take back our state House
This ought to be making the Republicans keep looking over their shoulders.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:36 PM
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6. good grief. what an idiot.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:43 PM
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9. He finally woke up - give him some credit.
And it took guts for Hasan to call Polis and said, "convince me why I should become a Democrat" - and Polis set it up beautifully.

Hawkeye-X
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 03:16 PM
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14. I wonder if he still supports TABOR
Did some searching and in a wiki type page it said he was an economic conservative/social liberal who supported it.
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Pisces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 05:02 PM
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18. For leaving your party? Or just now realizing your party never wanted him?
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:37 PM
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7. What took him so long?
:shrug:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:41 PM
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8. As if the GOP cares that he left
:rofl:

They are probably glad to see him go..

I'll never understand how any thinking person can BE a republican...
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 02:46 PM
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11. Amen to that.
Edited on Sat Dec-11-10 02:47 PM by Hawkeye-X
We lost a client who's a 100% Republican oil/gas firm because of an idiot named Bob who works for them, deliberately sabotaging our company so we take the fall (so his buddy can take over - they're already off to a very bad start)

With that loss, we now focus on our main business 100%. We will get calls from old clients time to time, but it will be months before we get anything again.

I haven't touched or worked for them for over a year - my boss did up until last week.

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Rageneau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 03:09 PM
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13. His heroes are Reagan, George W, and ... PELOSI???
What a trifecta.
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 03:34 PM
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15. K&R
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 04:50 PM
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16. Reagan was no friend to miniorities
He is a bit mixed up....

To just now figure out the Repubican party is racist.....well...okay. When Junior started the war against Muslims that should have been a clue...Bet he listened to Rush too....and his hate mongering...
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 04:59 PM
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17. Now that took long
Ah well.
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louslobbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-10 06:06 PM
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19. Republicans Literally Hate and Fear Muslims. And not necessarily in that order.
Anyone who watched FOX GOP Network during the New York Mosque uprising should be well aware of how Republicans see Muslims. They fear Muslims, they think that "not all muslims are terrorists", but "all terrorists are Muslim. They believe that Muslims are evil.......they do not like Muslims. They may tolerate a few who side with them, and use them to spew their talking points from time to time, but make no mistake about it, Republicans do not like Muslims. They don't like blacks, gays, jews and those who don't practice the Christian faith, but that's another post. Most Republicans have no compassion, their lives are spent trying to force this country to be what they want it to be, to look like they want it to look and to share their warped religious beliefs. They want wealth in the hands of a few who "deserve" it....some actually believe that it is Gods will they have the wealth and power like the C-street crowd believe. The rest of us are simply rabble.....those who should follow their lead and do what they and their corporate masters want. So their hate is not limited to Muslims, but Republicans, GOP FOX Network and most conservatives, have a deep seated hatred and fear of Muslims. If they can get one or two to agree with their warped way of thinking, FOX GOP Network will milk that for all it's worth. They will use that person until they figure it out, then they will turn around and demonize the very same person they once used to point out that they are not Muslim Haters. They hate everything about Muslims and fear Mosques being built in this country. They fear Muslims in our government, Muslims in our armed forces and even future Pregnant Muslim women coming here pregnant with Muslim babies to be the next home grown Muslim/American terrorists lol. If I didn't laugh, I'd cry. So, Mr Hasan has finally opened his eyes and mind to this harsh reality. It has always been there, but it took Nancy Pelosi to finally help him see. I hope other Republican Muslims, Blacks, Gays, Atheists, and Mexicans realize that the Republican GOP FOX Network uses them to further their political goals in this country. When they use you up, they will simply demonize you and discard you. The Republicans have a very small tent and if you don't subscribe to their ideology in lock step and in whole, you are not one of them. If you are not one of them, then you are the enemy in their war to take this country back to a place where certain people new their place, their form of Christianity has a place in politics to use and abuse those who do not agree, and the rich white corporate Republicans rule the rest of us. They want thing the way they were......Republican really want 1. A Christian Nation, 2. All brown people sent back to their own country, 3. All blacks back in dem ol cotton fields, 4. All gays either back in the closet, jail or dead.......these are the big ones on their "what I want for Christmas list", and if they can't get all of that in this ever developing and changing country, then they might as well get more power and money for themselves and the corporations. So Mr Hasan, welcome to the party who appreciates you and wishes you well. We support your freedom to worship, love who you want to, build your Mosques and live unmolested by bigoted, hateful, mentally ill Republican GOP FOX Network types and their white power militia friends making back room deals to harm those whom which they disagree and in fact, and in most cases, as all their type of Christians do, Hate.

If there is a God, and I believe in a powerful, universal sense there is, May that God help us all.
LouSlobbs
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