Posted on 09/22/2010 12:57:56 PM PDT by blam
Rand Paul Suggests Economic Decline Could Lead To A New Hitler
Evan McMorris-Santoro
September 22, 2010, 2:02PM
KY Sen. candidate Rand Paul (R)
More goodness from Jason Zengerle's tasty profile of Rand Paul in GQ: The Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky just wants you to know that, with the way things are going these days, a new Hitler could be in America's future at any moment.
It's probably a good idea to keep an eye out for that, folks.
Here's the long quote from Paul that Zengerle snagged on the trail with the candidate:
"In 1923, when they destroyed the currency, they elected Hitler. And so they elected somebody who vilified one group of people, but he promised them, 'I will give you security if you give me your liberty,' and they voted him in. And that's not to mean that anybody around is Hitler, but it's to mean that you don't want chaos in your country. And we could have chaos, not just because of the Democrats, but because the Democrats and the Republicans have all been spending us into oblivion. And having a massive debt runs the risk of chaos at some point. Not tomorrow, maybe not next week--I mean, I can't even predict the stock market six months from now. But I think that a country is in danger that spends beyond its means and lives beyond its means. And I don't ever say it started with President Obama. I think it started long ago."
So, there you have it. There's no actual Hitler on scene at the moment as far as Paul knows but one just might be waiting in the wings if we're not careful with our liberty or whatever. Here's how Zengerle breaks down the comment:
It's an incredible performance, one that begins with a gentle distancing from a loony analogy before reframing the analogy to make it seem less loony, then introducing a new analogy that isn't just loony, it's repugnant, but that also, as the analogy gets fleshed out in greater detail, begins to reveal itself as conforming to a certain logic that might be worthy of debate--all before ending on a bipartisan, pox-on-both-their-houses note that makes it clear that no, he was not comparing Obama to Hitler. It should be noted that Paul's fear-mongering about Hitler is nothing new to the tea party movement upon which his political successes have relied. Tea partiers have long compared Obama and the Democrats to the man who led Nazi Germany.
So Paul wasn't really rocking the boat when he said what he said -- but for a man who Zengerle notes is still "figuring out how to cozy up to the GOP establishment without alienating his rabid base," the Hitler is coming comment may strike some of Paul's more mainstream supporters as odd.
The TPM Poll Average shows Paul leading Democratic nominee Jack Conway 47.2-41.5.
I’m thinking Mussolini more than Hitler, in the case of the US and the current times.
Just like the leftists in our government (and elsewhere) want. Soros must really miss his old boss.
Politically, it is usually wiser not to invoke the name of Hitler, unless you are actually talking about Hitler.
Good Lord, the man has read a history book or two! The horror!
>Economic Decline Could Lead To A New Hitler
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Too late, we have one right now. Actually far dumber and worse than Hitler.
more shocking, he is the first guy to read a history book...?
aint no book or man seen the potential of what these pigs have unleashed.
I swear that just because he is a Paul, I was prepared to point and laugh BUT....he made sense.
Zero isn’t Hitler, he is more like Mussolini.
I stand corrected.
Nationalism and socialism don't really combine in the American political bloodstream.
The more patriotic an American is, the more he hates socialism.
The more socialist an American is, the more he hates his country.
Patriots in America are portrayed as irrational and violent, but rarely are. Socialists in America are quite irrational and violent.
Chavez hated Venezuela as it was, destroyed its constitution and is transforming it into a caricature of Cuba, and his supporters are the urban underclass, the academics, and the trade unions.
That's a more likely model for a dictator - and the means of his accession to power will likely be a constitutional amendment (like the deletion of the electoral college) that will allow a one-time, fixed plebiscitary election to destroy our institutions.
I'm not saying this is the most likely outcome, just that this is the most likely way such an outcome could happen.
You should be too embarrassed to admit your prejudice.
I have zero patience for his father, but Rand Paul has either not drunk the Flavor Aid or is very careful about not showing that he has drunk the Flavor Aid.
...More like another Chavez, a socialist demagogue!
“Zero isn’t Hitler, he is more like Mussolini.”
Allende.
Our First President had a better understanding:
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- George Washington, Circular Letter of Farewell to the Army, June 8, 1783 -
Sorry, his Dad’s a nut and that leads to certain judgements on anyone with the name. I have read up on Rand however and he seems not only sane but perhaps a strong ally for the conservative caucus in the Senate.
Bingo! Birds of a feather 0bama and Chavez.
Barack Obama would love to wear jackboots, if he could get away with it.
The huge mob of mindless democrat voters is ripe for a dictatorship.
Waiting for the MSM to claim that Ran Paul was referencing himself with that statement....
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