Yes, I’ve read him for years, and pretty much stopped in the last year or so. And what does objecting to Euro-racism have to do with not being an Islamophobe?
The mindsets are not mutually exclusive.

The majority of his blog posts have been were associated with some criminal activity or other associated with Islamics. Sometimes this was Al Quida/Hamas stuff which is fair game. Way too often it’s some random criminality/small time terror scheme that happened to be performed by Islamics, all in the name of refuting the “Islam is a religion of peace” over and over and over again. I’ve seen the same technique used against Christians. You scan the world news and find the .001 percent of that religion’s jerks and present it on a daily basis as the norm.

He was big on “Britain’s problem” associated with Muslim immigrants until the last 6 months or so when he was shocked, shocked to discover that the groups objecting the most, and subsequently his fellow travelers so to speak had really truly racists in their midst. Well one way to refute a charge of racism is to go after some Nazis and he seems to be working that angle with some urgency.

We just nominated “the guy” the Whitmans and the Johnsons and the Buckleys said they wanted, and half of that group jumped to Obama a week before the election. What makes any conservative think they’ll stay put even if they get their guy? We nominated the “moderate” vs. their “leftist” and we saw what the results were nationally, so obviously that meme has little traction.

And I find it so ironic that the people preaching “big tent” are so the first to start booting people out of it …

Oh wait – we just elected one…

“After that, he rapidly degenerated into a one note Islamophobe – which earned him a reputation in the left netroots as a “racist”.”

Have you ever actually read him?

If anything, Charles has largely been keeping away from being an Islamophobe- as can be seen by his firm repudations of racist groups such as Vlaams Belang-which not even the great Robert Spencer did.

Do the nutroots call him racist? Yes. Who cares?

As for Intelligent Design, I do get the impression that it is primarily against teaching it in school, and- while he seemed to have some lingering doubts over Creationists as a whole- he was one of the firmer supporters of Sarah Palin, which shows that, for now, he hasn’t degenerated terribly far.

Are his criticisms of Social Cons troubling? A bit, and he should catch flack for it. However, just because of that doesn’t mean he has degenerated into some racist or Leftist.

Yes, a bit like Rufus where you should be able to screw up your own life. And me ranting and raving about it every day isn’t going to change it or them.

And that’s some trenchant commentary, K. Excellent work.

I consider myself a conservative on fiscal issues and liberal on social issues, and I think most conservatives are like me. Through free choice I live my life rather “conservatively,” but I want a society were folks are also free to screw up their lives, if they choose to.

Not surprising, then, that he should start trying to toss the core of conservatism into the water.

Which makes more sense? That one is conservative on social issues and you extend that conservatism to the fiscal side or that one is fiscally conservative but socially liberal when social liberalism always includes increased liberal entitlement spending?