A few years ago, California voters adopted the Louisiana system of elections, the one that gave us the famous campaign slogan of "Vote for the Crook. It's Important." (The alternative was a Klansman.) When we cast our ballots for U.S. Senate 11 months from now, the choice won't be quite that unpalatable, but Republicans may very well have to swallow hard and choose between two Democrats: Attorney General Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. It seems Ms. Sanchez has raised some hackles with a Politically Incorrect statement. Christopher Cadelago reports for the SacBee:
On a related issue, Rudy Giuliani has an op-ed in the WSJ on calling things by their proper names.
Sanchez, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, said that between 5 and 20 percent of Muslims want to form a caliphate to target Western norms.Saying "between 5 and 20 percent" wasn't a good idea. Her follow-up "I don't know how big that is" is completely correct. Nobody knows. Islamic extremism exists, and regardless of how large the fraction is, this is a reality that cannot be ignored. Willingness to speak uncomfortable truths places a checkmark in Ms. Sanchez's column, in my view.
"They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world," Sanchez said on "PoliticKING with Larry King." "And again, I don't know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they are certainly, they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use and they do use terrorism."
On a related issue, Rudy Giuliani has an op-ed in the WSJ on calling things by their proper names.
We are told that most Muslims are peaceful and it’s probably true. But it’s irrelevant because if as much as even 5% or Muslims are either terrorists or in sympathy with terrorisys that’s several million muslims.