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Senator Santorum calls Hitler quip 'mistake' (Celebrate National Dhimmitude Week -- Apologize)
Reuters ^ | 20 May 2005 | Reuters

Posted on 05/20/2005 3:36:28 PM PDT by Cornpone

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To: Cornpone
He isn't far off. It was the political left that came up with the idea.


21 posted on 05/20/2005 4:48:53 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: Blurblogger
The demonizing must be used appropriately--and Santorum was dead on.

No one takes anyone seriously who calls likens his opponents to Nazis.

Get serious.

22 posted on 05/20/2005 4:52:14 PM PDT by sinkspur (If you want unconditional love with skin, and hair and a warm nose, get a shelter dog.)
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To: BenLurkin

"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.


23 posted on 05/20/2005 4:54:10 PM PDT by torchthemummy ("Sober Idealism Equals Pragmatism")
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To: Cornpone

All I want to know is did Byrd apologize when he inferred the same thing about Republicans?


24 posted on 05/20/2005 4:55:52 PM PDT by Alissa
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To: Cornpone

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.


25 posted on 05/20/2005 4:58:57 PM PDT by StonyBurk
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To: BenLurkin

"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.


26 posted on 05/20/2005 5:08:21 PM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: Blurblogger
I agree with Santorum when he said the RATS have “violated the long-standing principle of majority rule on nominations and are now accusing us of behaving unlawfully when we are attempting to defend that principle."

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...


27 posted on 05/20/2005 7:08:24 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Kenny Bunkport
Has Sheets Byrd formally apologized for comparing Republicans to Nazis in this filibuster fight? Has Bent Reid apologized for calling Pres. Bush a "loser"?

Good point.

28 posted on 05/20/2005 7:20:38 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Tahts-a-dats-ago
I'm rather tired of Republicans apologizing for any remark the left chooses to distort, while dimocrats actually do compare Republicans to Hitler without fear of retribution. It's long past time that the Republicans fought back and hard.

I agree with that. Bravo!

29 posted on 05/20/2005 7:21:35 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Me too! Whatever.


30 posted on 05/20/2005 7:27:52 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek

Whatever is fine.


31 posted on 05/20/2005 7:29:35 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Blah.


32 posted on 05/20/2005 7:41:09 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Cornpone

And Patsy Buchanan was offended...that Hitler's name was dragged through the mud. (snicker)


33 posted on 05/20/2005 7:56:03 PM PDT by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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To: Pharmboy

Gee...was that a Beretta 92FS I noticed in your collection?


34 posted on 05/20/2005 7:58:15 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Cornpone

Naw, just a Brazilian copy. But it works...


35 posted on 05/20/2005 8:03:46 PM PDT by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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To: Cornpone

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.


36 posted on 05/20/2005 8:19:41 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: So Cal Rocket
I am a dhimmi. I will admit this here before my fellow FReepers.

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.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

37 posted on 05/20/2005 11:44:22 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: Cornpone

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." ...


38 posted on 05/21/2005 4:55:36 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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