Posted on 07/23/2004 10:09:54 PM PDT by quidnunc
The Bush administer is curtailing democracy in America. President Bush himself, in case you hadn't noticed, is like Hitler. By the way, he knew about 9/11 beforehand. On top of that, he let Osama bin Laden's relatives sneak out of America shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The war in Iraq? It's a war for oil. And while we're on the subject of the war, Vice President Cheney intervened to assure contracts in postwar Iraq for Halliburton, the company he once headed.
These flights of paranoia, far-out analogies, conspiracy theories, and wild charges devoid of evidence are the stock in trade of the Loony Left. Normally such ideas are ridiculed or ignored by those in the political mainstream. But these days the fantasies of the Loony Left are increasingly embraced and nearly always tolerated by the Democratic party and its auxiliary groups. The result? The Loony Left now has a toehold on the Democratic party.
A toehold, but not a foothold. The work product of the Loonies is only beginning to become mainstream among Democrats. You won't find many of the wild ideas in the party platform, nor are they routinely voiced by party leaders. But they have been treated with tolerance, rather than active disapproval, by most Democrats. So far at least, this phenomenon has cost Democrats nothing politically. Certainly they haven't been tarred in the way Republicans were in the 1990s when a few of them flirted with lunatic notions about President Clinton. Ultimately, however, identifying with the far-fetched and the eccentric is bound to harm Democrats.
The classic tactic of the Loony Left is to liken a target to Hitler. So it's not surprising that placards with Bush's face made to look like Hitler's are now commonplace at left-wing demonstrations. But who would have thought former vice president Al Gore would link, none-too-subtly, the president to Hitler? In a speech at Georgetown University in June, Gore said this: "The [Bush] administration works closely with a network of rapid responders, a group of digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors and publishers and advertisers, and are quick to accuse them of undermining support for our troops." The brownshirts, as most people know, were Nazis working for Hitler. If any Democrats chastised Gore for this slur, I missed it.
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A few more rap albums and we're toast - and we blow up.
You wiff me dog?
"You won't find many of the wild ideas in the party platform, nor are they routinely voiced by party leaders."
I beg your pardon!
The loony left needs to educate themselves with all due respect to their beloved NEA. Hitler was a SOCIALIST, which is a LEFTIST movement.
This is going to be quite a show in Boston with thousands of rat party members who are spitting mad at Bush. Add to that the congressional black cacas screening the michael moore hate bush movie in Boston. (Have plenty of popcorn and sodas ready).
The work product of the Loonies is only beginning to become mainstream among Democrats.
Only to give a long, long list of mainstream Democrats repeating Looney Leftiest bilge.
Somewhat redundant, don't you think?
The Democrats and the Loony left. Are they not the same???This should read The Loony left Democrats....
We need a FR daily DNC looney running thread to cover the invevitable running nutcases during the convention.
No, no you can't,
Floyd Geron Looney
I also recommend http://www.lyingleft.com
In that photo it looks like the dog is trying to disassociate itself with the Looney Left.
Cool. This means they are beginning to spontaneously combust. Better to stand back a distance so your petticoat doesn't catch on fire.
In the words of Buffalo Springfield, "Something happenin' here, but it just aint exactly clear".
How about http://lyingjackass.com
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