Posted on 05/20/2005 3:36:28 PM PDT by Cornpone
No one takes anyone seriously who calls likens his opponents to Nazis.
Get serious.
"I disagree. This is senseless hyperbole that adds nothing to the debate."
Agreed. I was listening sporadically during work yesterday and Santorum was doing just fine until I heard that remark. I didn't like it when Byrd said it and I didn't like it when Santorum said it. I knew immediately after he said it that he just gave a small gift to the Dems - small because Byrd was the most recent pol to use such comparison. And I know Moveon.org and other lefty interest groups have used such comparisons in multiple ways but this was just opening a door for the left. Stupid when he had months, years to put together his remarks.
All I want to know is did Byrd apologize when he inferred the same thing about Republicans?
Used to respect santorummore--but I fear the air in D.C. has ruined him --as it seems do all mere politicians. The
corrupted Government of the United States seems think that
they are an elite group of good ol'boys who must excuse any such outrage by the Democratic Politicians because
nobody in their right mind expects a godless reprobate to
have any respect for anyone but a more powerful Democratic
politician. And everyone expects Republicrats to roll over
and kiss up every a Democrat gets his /her/its'pouty face on.The whole thing smells worse than a foggybottom.
"This is senseless hyperbole.."
I agree. Santorum is out of it as far as this PA Repub is concerned. He was wrong where it counted most for him to be right---on Specter.
Being right on Terry Shiavo doesn't balance it, in my book. Help throw away our Constitution, then make a noble symbolic stand for Right to Life with no practical significance.
Now this wierd sounding statment.
Santorum is off, for some reason, lost the Force.
He didn't call them Nazis, what he said was "It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 declaring, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city. It's mine.'"
I like your poem.
You know what they said...
Good point.
I agree with that. Bravo!
Me too! Whatever.
Whatever is fine.
Blah.
And Patsy Buchanan was offended...that Hitler's name was dragged through the mud. (snicker)
Gee...was that a Beretta 92FS I noticed in your collection?
Naw, just a Brazilian copy. But it works...
This quote actually made me think Santorum might not be all bad. But now that he's apologized for it I'm ready to throw him back under the bus so to speak.
This weekend will be a series of posts on "Dhimmitude - And the Life of a Dhimmi" - stop by learn more of what you are in store for. This will all be from my first hand experience - what I go through on a daily basis from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep at night!
Learn how why that to accept Islam within your country requires that you sacrifice your freedom - stop by now and read how you are already losing it and don't even realize it.
Stop by now and see how in the fury over the Newsweek article that much of America missed the biggest story - the battle that we all collectively lost when our Secretary of State appeased and pleaded with our enemies that they might show us quarter - and then offered up our freedom in exchange for peace and security?
I urge you to read "Desecration of Freedom" and the other essays concerning the same.
Senator Santorum's actual words:
"We must tread very carefully before we go radically changing the way we do business here, which has served this country well. We have radically changed the way we do business here.
"Some are suggesting we are trying to change the law, we are trying to break the rules. Remarkable hubris. Imagine, the rule that this is the way we confirm judges has been in place for 214 years, broken by the other side 2 years ago, and the audacity of some Members to stand up and say, How dare you break this rule, it is the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying: I'm in Paris, how dare you invade me, how dare you bomb my city. It's mine. This is no more the rule of the Senate than it was the rule of the Senate before not to filibuster. It was an understanding, an agreement, and it has been abused." ...
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