I just had a surreal conversation with a guy handing out pamphlets:
guy: Do you know Hitler endorsed Obama’s healthplan?
me: Hitler?
guy: Yes, in 1939.
me: Really? That’s interesting. Who’re you working for?
guy: I’m just a concerned citizen.
me: You have pamphlets….
guy: I’m a volunteer.
me: Who for?
guy: The Mass. GOP.
The pamphlet was your basic FUD, no mention of Hitler.
Discuss
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Do you have documentation of that occuring. Nice try buddy.
I'm supposed to carry a video camera?
Sheesh. As I said, the pamphlet didn't saying anything about Hitler.
Why are you surprised your guys on the street are saying the same things Rush is?
Nice try indeed.
We all know they would NEVER resort to tactics like that.
did you read the transcript?
The smears, distortions and historical inaccuracies in Rush's broadcast are revolting:
Remind me again
What was the title of Jonah Goldberg's latest book?
GOP = Godwin's Own Party?
This Hitler/Holocaust bullshit is a bit over the top, but I have to hand it to them--they know how to stomp on the drama accelerator.
What happens when you've played your Hitler card--and it doesn't work? What do you play then?
You start cracking heads and breaking windows
I think these thugs will keep ratcheting up the violence and thuggery until the rest of us are forced to stop them. It's the same game Osama Bin Laden played against the US, starting with the U.S.S. Cole, and then ratcheting up the action until a response is provoked.
That's why the entire "bipartisan" thing is so naive, pointless, and fruitless. Screw them. Marginalize them. When they bust heads and break windows, put them in jail for busting heads and breaking windows. Look at how the Episcopal Church bent over backwards trying to "avoid schism" with a similar crowd about gay/lesbian ordination and (their real target) the ordination of women. The national church spent years trying to accommodate them, and got nothing but spit in the face and fingers in the eye. A better response would have been to say "goodbye and good luck" -- and "good riddance" -- when the fracas started. Same with these rightwing morons.
Enough is enough.
When they bust heads and break windows, put them in jail for busting heads and breaking windows
Fair enough.
And until it happens - stop acting as if it did.
It wasn't Republicans with guns outside polling places last November.
Excuse me?
I don't recall ANYONE guarding polling places with guns (aside from local cops who happen to be armed, but I get the sense that's not what you're talking about). I feel fortunate to live in a country that does not require that.
they were batons
but its still voter intimidation.
I still don't know to what you refer.
the new black panther party members
who stood outside a philidelphia polling place in their uniforms carrying batons. And I don't mean stood on the street with all the signs. They were mere feet from the door.
The bush administration brought charges of voter intimidation up on them and then the obama administration dropped them.
Democrats are now Black Panthers?
Cool!
I said the same thing
when I found out I got to be an honorary member of the KKK.
ah yes, rabid response
Kinda silly, don't you think?
Still, you need to separate folks response to your various defenses of bigotry from blaming one group for the actions of another.
hardly a rabid response
just pointing out that if we're going to do such things as lump the KKK in with the Republican party then we might as well lump the black panthers in with the democrats.
I'm not trying to shell shock you into not responding. I would genuinely like to hear why you think the obama administration was correct in dropping the voter intimidation charges.
No, I meant the KK conflation is a rabid response
Just like the Black Panthers
I have no details on the charges, so no opinion
Really? Provide a link, SVP. n/t
It already has happened on your side.
The Pittsburgh cop shooter was a right-wing lunatic egged on by the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The guy that shot up the Holocaust museum was also a right-wing lunatic. And Dr. Tiller's killer, needless to say, was also a right-wing lunatic.
Remember the Unitarian church shooter? He stated that he wanted to kill as many liberals as he could. And his language couldn't get any more Nazi-like or eliminationist:
"I thought I'd do something good for this Country Kill Democrats til the cops kill me....Liberals are a pest like termites. Millions of them Each little bite contributes to the downfall of this great nation. The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is to kill them in the streets. Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals."
Who had guns outside polling places, PP?
Let's see a link to this nonsense - put up or shut up, please...
Because by that time, it's too late
So what you're saying is, although we can match significant numbers of current events and characteristics of the current political climate to events and characteristics of every single fascist movement of the last century or two, we should refuse to recognize the trajectory until fascism has progressed through the first few stages and is fully entrenched here, at which point, according to scholars of fascist history (serious scholars like Robert Paxton; Jonah Goldberg not included), it will be too late to reverse.
How convenient for you.
They start comparing health insurance
reform to the Holocaust.
It's LaRouche-ites
Some Lyndon LaRouche types are using a picture of Obama with a Hitler moustache. I think it's those guys (they do seem to be all guys) who are infiltrating the rallies, not regular GOP.
my guy didn't have pictures
Just standard issue "Obamacare is going to destroy civilization" GOP literature.
As I noted above, the GOP is big into the "Democrats are Nazis" meme as well.
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