[Mr. Mojo]

Hitler Democrats?

Redundancy alert.

[MonroeDNA]

Soros is the enemy.

[Eloid Duckwilder]

As many others have noted, here and elsewhere, whenever the Left starts foaming at the mouth, accusing Conservatives of something outrageous, it is often an insight into what they themselves, the Left, are up to. By accusing the Right, or in this case W., of foul deeds, they attempt to preemptively disarm their opponents by being the first to breach the topic and hopefully put them on the defensive. It was prevalent throughout the Clinton years (remember the "politics of personal destruction" and who it was that was truly engaged in that?).

In light of this phenomenon, could it be that the Left, in trying to link the Republicans to Hitler/Nazism/Fascism, has indeed tipped their hand to their current scheme?

Consider:

Is it the Left or the Right that implicitly practices quasi-anti-Semitism, by withholding support for Israel and lending not-so-quasi-support for Palestinian/radical Muslim causes?
Is it the Left or Right that is more supportive of nationalized industry (e.g., Hillary-health care)?
And these are just two examples. The list goes on and on.

My point is, has the decline of the Left and the (apparent) marginalization of Liberalism merely led to a change in their tactics: no more striving to be like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but more like the National Socialist Party? (which word and precept is common to both?). Also common to both is atheism and the religion of secular humanism, or some variant thereof. Heck, never let your ideology get in the way of obtaining power, right?

[Ciexyz]

Hitler Democrats

as opposed to "Bush Democrats", a dissatisfied wing that's been left behind in their party -- I like both phrases. We should hammer the point home, that the malicious, patholigical hate-spewing Democratic lefties have morphed into "Hitler Democrats".

[Coleus]

One year it was soccer moms>>

[sirshackleton]

The funny thing is, I go to a lot of leftwing sites (which shall remain nameless) and they spew the "Anyone But Bush" line...which to me indicates they're basically unprincipled and will stand behind anyone who's not Bush for the sole reason that they're not Bush (marching lockstep, would you sya?) AND they're very fond of "loyalty oaths"...a particularly weird one is something like "I WILL USE MY FEET AND WALLLET....etc etc etc". They don't sense any irony in that at all...but who can expect them to?

[randog]

The MoveOn-Hitler scandal seems to have legs. Good.

This whole Bush=Hitler thing is old hat. Read any high school or college newspaper and you'll find several references to Hitler. It's a common practice for those with little-to-no debating or rational thinking skills to drop the 'Hitler Bomb' to make (or attempt to make) their point. Columnist Jeff Jacoby recently called the practice 'Reductio ad Hitlerum'.

Now take a look at who are the biggest proponents of leftism--young college kids or those at simlar maturity levels.

[Naspino]

"'When I hear Bush say, You're either with us or against us, it reminds me of the Germans.' It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls."

Alright. Hitler did this internally to his own people; purging from the society anyone that did not bow down to his regime; like Saddam, like Castro, like every other communist and dictator in power.

Bush said this to foreign nations -- that you will either be with us on rooting our TERRORISM or against us. How many nations elected to go against the defeat of TERRORISM?

The fact that they don't see the difference is astonishing to me. Bush has on numerous occasions reaffirmed the lefts right to hate him and slander him -- just not mob him because they're all pinko wackos.

[Rocky]

The Hitler-Bush comparison is obviously born out of pure hatred for Bush. But other than a very few crackpots who know that the comparison is not correct, but are so driven by hatred that they promote it anyway, I have to believe that there is one major factor in the persistence of the comparison: ignorance of history. Hitler is an image to these people, but one not polluted by much understanding of facts.

Anyone you dislike can be identified with Hitler, as long as you don't know much about who Hitler really was, what he really did, or the times in which he lived. No one but a kook, for example, could read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and then make that comparison.

Just another example, I am afraid, of the lack of real education in our schools.

[cyncooper]

Good piece. I wish the author would have pointed out Al Gore's propensity for making speeches sponsored or co-sponsored by Moveon.org, like the Global Warming speech the other day, and his infamous speech last August.

And for those who don't know, truthout is run by Bill Moyers' son, John, a truly repugnant human being.

[StriperSniper]

The ads were condemned by the Republican National Committee, which called on the nine Democrats running for president to condemn them. None did.

Shows how much they all fear their own left wing.