"Liberal wealthy super-elites" = Jews? Gee, ya think?

The Republican party hasn't lost its ability to hate just about everybody. I had thought with all their attention of late to Muslim-bashing and gay-bashing, they'd forgotten about the Jews. But alas, no suck luck. The GOP propaganda organ, and cult-run newspaper, Washington Times has joined the recent surge of George-Soros-Jew bashing that's been on the uptick of late in the Republican party and among their surrogates (is it just a coincidence that GOP surrogate and CNN host Glenn Beck last night noted that America just can't afford a Jew as president?)

In this latest broadside in the Moonie paper, we learn that the "amoral" and "wealthy super-elite" George Soros has a "hatred of Christianity" and "control" over a vast conspiracy to take over the world.

What, no comment about his nose?

The article even attacks Atrios as part of the great Jewish conspiracy (I hear his name was Atriosowitz before he emigrated).

You can read the piece for yourself, it's equal parts bizarre (accusing MoveOn of being fringe for opposing the Iraq war (along with the overwhelming majority of the American people) and supporting John Kerry for president (along with 49% of the American people)) - yeah, pretty fringe there - and equal parts simply disgusting for its implied bigotry. At what point will Republicans learn that Jew-baiting and gay-bashing, trashing blacks and Muslims and Latinos, isn't what this country is about, and it isn't what the majority of Republicans are about?

At what point will the Republican party stand for anything more than fear? Do they have any vision for the future that doesn't include bashing someone they hate?