Former GOP presidential contender Ace McCain goes on the record. The shootings at Fort Hood were terrorist acts and that's all there is to it.
During the last year of W's reign of error, when the wheels were coming off, his conservative defenders always argued that after 9/11 there had been no further terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. That was their standard defense: He kept us safe, and nothing else mattered to them.
Some of the same conservatives who defended W are now determined to establish that Hasan is an Islamic terrorist, the shootings were acts of terrorism, and Obama hasn't kept us safe (i.e., Obama isn't up to W's standard).
Republicans understand that if you repeat something often enough on television, it'll eventually be accepted as truth by most people. I'd be less skeptical about the Hasan story if I didn't suspect Republicans were using it to score easy political points.
Added 11:10 am:
A lot of the conservative bitching about the Fort Hood case includes disgusted references to political correctness, as in, "If it weren't for PC, it wouldn't have happened."
I think a lot of conservatives resent political correctness because it makes it harder for them to use the word they really want to use when talking about Obama.
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