Renee Again

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Anderson Cooper: Keeping It Real

By Matthew Uhlmann Monday, September 27, 2010

Renee Ellmers is a narrow-minded woman with small thoughts and big political ambitions. She’s a Republican House candidate from North Carolina with a campaign banking on the average voters historical ignorance.

The congressional candidate ran an add earlier last week void of creativity. I mean, if a person’s got hate in their heart, they could at least try to express it with a little flare of originality.

It’s all about the ‘Ground Zero Mosque‘. Hasn’t that well been sucked dry? She was interviewed by Anderson Cooper last Friday and initially questioned by the host about her interchangeable use of the identifiers “Muslim” and “Terrorist” in her campaign ad.

The language is actually one of the thirty second spots’ more subtle concerns. She goes on to reference the construction of mosques that were built in previous cites of Muslim conquests (Jerusalem and Constantinople) and suggests that the Ground Zero Mosque is in the trend as a symbolic monument of victory that is the 9/11 attacks.

She’s neglected to mention that nearly every major religious institution in the history of western civilization has constructed religious centers in their dominant cities, like the construction of the Vatican in Rome or the Pilgrim’s Christian churches throughout the Americas.

After Anderson Cooper has put Ellmers on the spot for a couple of minutes, she then accuses him of being “anti-religion” and “anti-Christian” and Cooper responded with something of a shorthand for the entire conversation:

“That is — that is like — that’s like the lowest response I have ever heard from a candidate, I have got to tell you.”

She’s not a fire-breather, she’s an opportunist and a teasing schemestress. Ellmers is a second-rate bible thumper. And despite her support from Sarah Palin, the polls are showing little hope for Ellmers in the coming election.