Recap of Republican Disinformation Points on Manhattan Islamic Center, Courtesy of Florida Governor Candidate

Disgraced HCA Columbia Healthcare CEO Rick Scott (who was forced to resign rather than face criminal charges in the nation’s largest Medicaid fraud case, resulting in a $1.7 billion fine) sums up all the Republican lies about the Islamic Center in New York in one TV spot, going FOX News one better by tying construction of the facility to health care reform. Why Scott, who is running for governor of Florida — a state which will have little if any say in the issue — would chose this as a campaign platform is unclear.

Democrat for Florida Governor Sums Up the State of Republican Opponents

According to polls, Democratic Florida Governor candidate Alex Sink is benefitting from the hatchet jobs her Republican opponents are doing on one another. In a debate summed up as a “race to the bottom” in Florida newspapers, Attorney General Bill McCollum and disgraced CEO Rick Scott got personal, but said very little about…what is it candidates are supposed to address? Oh yeah, how to fix the state. In this video, Sink continues to point out that Republicans offer pretty much nothing in the way of ideas.

Finally – Mainstream Media Points Out That Gay Marriage Is Twice As Popular Now As Interracial Marriage Was When It Was Legalized in 1967

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This is a factoid I have tried to get out there for a while now — and it’s shocking that it was Chuck Todd, one of the main regurgitators of conventional wisdom in the Beltway kool kids club, who put it on TV.

It’s wrong to base protecting people’s rights on polling, but if that’s how it is going to be done now, then it should at least be consistent.