Just when did John Ashcroft join the Nazi Party?

WorldNetDaily ^ | 30 January 2004 | Jack Cashill

[Just mythoughts]

L O L!

[Verginius Rufus]

Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison, but was released before completing three years. He was pardoned by Warren G. Harding in time to spend Christmas 1921 with his family.

By the way, John W. Dean was on C-SPAN the other day as part of a panel of people who have written biographies of U.S. Presidents; he has a new book out on Warren G. Harding. I don't know whether it is worth reading.

[Jim_Curtis]

I can't seem to connect your thoughts which might mean that you are much brighter than I am. Please dumb it down for me so that I might understand it.

[Morgan's Raider]

I heard the following (approximate) phone call on C-SPAN one morning a couple of weeks ago:

Caller(young female Deaniac): I don't trust Kerry because he's 'Skull and Bones' like Bush.
Steve Scully: What's the problem with "Skull and Bones"?
Deaniac: They're all Nazis.
Steve: Nazis?
Deaniac: You know, big business and industry and stuff like that.

The left has succeeded in eliminating the teaching of any meaningful history in this country, and these idiots are cancelling out our votes.

[Big Giant Head]

Ditto that! They caused their own problems.

[COEXERJ145]

Sounds about right. When I took a class entitled "The History of Nazi Germany" last semester (after waiting 5 years to take it) the first week was spent discussing how the term "Nazi" has been rendered meaningless in this day and age because it is use by people of every ideology to describe someone in the opposition. It has become nothing more than a cheap insult that the uneducated masses throw out whenever they need a quick out of a lost argument.

From the Liberal Dictionary

Racist/Bigot/Homophobe/Nazi/Fascist- Anyone winning an argument against a liberal

[Blzbba]

"The "right" never came close to this kind of hate of BJClinton."


Speak for yourself. I recall the airwaves being very heated for most of Clintax's Administration, with good reason obviously.

Me? I never hated Clinton. I mean, after the whole Gennifer Flowers ordeal of '92, you pretty much knew what the guy was all about. I had more disdain for the electorate who put him into power, than I did the man himself. I always felt that 'we knew what we were getting' (to quote myself) with Clinton.

But Gore? That lying piece of shi7? That man I came as close to hating as you can for someone you'll never actually meet.

[olde north church]

I remember that call! I just for once would like to hear a commentator ask the caller what the society stands for, actually not regurgitating the media message.

[Just mythoughts]

Your usage of your "hate" I call righteous indignation.

There is a huge difference in that and "insane hate".

The left's hate of President Bush has no moral basis and your righteous indignation (hate) is because clinton and algore have no morals.

[Jim_Curtis]

The reason that the left uses the word "nazi" is because it effectively paralyzes their target.

For example, if I'm an "artist" that wants more NEA funding, I can achieve this by calling Bush "anti-art nazi"...Bush in return will show that he isn't an anti-art nazi by giving more money to the NEA.

or, I could say "Bush is an anti-homosexual nazi"...now I can illegally issue permits for gay marriage while Bush sits back paralyzed from taking action lest he "prove my point".

or, I can bypass the whole issue oriented angle and just call someone a "Nazi!" and this person will become paralyzed from taking any kind of action at all.

...the appropriate response is to step up your actions and make them scream louder and use a decibel meter to guage your success.

[Wil H]

That doesn't fit in with what I hear in liberal screeds...according to them, just about everyone on the right is a Nazi.

Exactly, they accuse the Republicans of being racist even though they emancipated the slaves and championed civil rights.

They call them intolerant although they are the ones that stifle any dissent.

They deflect criticism by accusing their opponents of their own faults.

The Nazis promoted "Leibensraum", "Strength through Joy", the "Hitler Youth," and the "People's Car" (Volkswagen) - hardly right wing ideology..

Don't confuse totalitarianism with right wing thinking, totalitarianism can come from either side - just look at Stalin.

...are you getting the picture?

[trebb]

according to them, just about everyone on the right is a Nazi

That's probably because in today's world, you would have to move right of them to find the Nazi party...

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Dont forget to mention that Ashcroft wouldn't be AG had he been elected to the senate. 'Im still with Mel' the bumper stickers read as Missouri elected a dead man to the US Senate. I am not so sure that he met the residency requirements...

[Freedom4US]

Yep. It's almost like we woke up in bizarro-world. AG Ashcroft is absolutely, positively, make-no-mistake, the kind of guy we want for the job. "We" meaning God-fearing, patriotic Americans. I suppose if one is rooting for Al-Queda.... it's a bit different.

[gcruse]

Thanks for the headsup. I googled up a review of Dean's book and it looks like it is mostly early bio and political, which isn't too surprising, I guess.

The thing with Harding, though, is the Harding family's legal clamp on correspondence between Harding and a woman in Ohio he was supposedly having an affair with, alongside Nan Britton whom he allegedly boffed in the White House, on a train, and out of town.

Unless the reviewer skipped all that, which I doubt, the Harding book is a dry as John Dean's demeanor. We want Mo!

[MegaSilver]

The Democratic Party has fascist undertones. Afraid that the voters might discover them, they rush to paint them on the Republicans to draw attention away from themselves--not unlike schoolyard bullies beating up little kids to hide their own insecurities.

[MegaSilver]

The other appropriate response is to ask them if they know what a "Nazi" is, and then when they give a loose definition including "Fascism," ask them what Fascism is.

And watch them trip over themselves.

[MrB]

"situational liberalism"

The best line in the article. It shows that LEFTISTS (they're NOT liberals) don't even have any core beliefs when it comes to their own "liberalism."

[GraceCoolidge]

The left has succeeded in eliminating the teaching of any meaningful history in this country, and these idiots are cancelling out our votes.

You're right about the teaching of history. I was thinking, too, about all the furor (exhaustively documented on other threads!) about Mel Gibson's father "minimizing" the Holocaust. It seems to me that the left's pattern of denigrating everyone with whom you disagree as a "Nazi" is just as bad. I'm sure that Holocaust survivors, at least, can distinguish the difference. I'd love to ask the next liberal who pulls this trick: do you really compare your political disagreements with this individual to the Holocaust? You think those two events are morally equivalent? To disagree with you is just as bad as to have participated in the Holocaust? Talk about having no shame!