The Overused ‘Nazi’ Insult (Comparison of Conservatives to Hitler "Grotesque," "Obscene")

Boston Globe ^ | 6/28/2005 | Jeff Jacoby

[Miss Behave]

OMG. I love that pic and caption. LOL.

[Miss Behave]

That's just wrong.

[BJClinton]

Yeah, I'm used to it (libertarian and all). Seriously though, the debate will do you good. :-)

[Dead Corpse]

The GOP is long over due for excising the Left leaning RINO's from their midst.

To paraphrase, "I didn't leave the Republican party, it left me."

The GOP's main thrust seems to be maintaining power no matter what kind of assbat (Olympia Snowe and John Mc-Insane come to mind) they have to push on a less than willing voter. This is weakening the conservative stance of the whole party. They are, in truth, becoming what some have claimed all along...

"All the Socialism of the Democrats, at half the price."

[No Blue States]

No I dont think you are that far gone, just frustrated with some rinos.

But to call the whole party "repubicrats" makes me wonder if a 3rd party alien embryo is soon to jump out of your chest and begin daily bad mouthing the whole party like a broken record.

[buffyt]

We will let you know!~ LOL

Actually I was thinking the same thing. I have been here since 1998, and I consider a newbie someone who just joined today.

But WELCOME TO FREEREPUBLIC, FRIEND!

[conservative_crusader]

I think it has something to do with having a brain.
You might make a new thread over it *laughs maniacally*.

Wait, yeah... you definitely have to have a brain. Nevermind. You'll always be a n00b.

[yoswif]

My favorite for Greatest American, George Washington, didn't think much of giving a lot of power to political parties and party leaders. He thought they'd be easy targets for powerful special interests, foreign and domestic, to either buy or coerce. I don't think GW would call what party leaders have produced a democracy.

I'd much rather see conservatives and libertarians support free and fair non-partisan elections at all levels of government instead of doggedly defending Republican party leaders. I think the product of free and fair non-partisan elections at all levels of government would do a better job protecting national sovereignty, individual liberty, and the relatively unfettered right of average Americans to own their homes and businesses than the product of partisan elections.

[willyboyishere]

You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.

[willyboyishere]

You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Boy, some of you guys here kill me. I don't blindly support the republican party so that makes me an America hater? For your information, my problem with the republicans is that while the dems have slid into outright marxism, the republicans have filled the void by moving towards the left.

 

Actually I think your statement that sure as hell looks all inclusive to the party is what got you piled on. While I agree many Repubs these days are nothing more than DemoncRats in Pubbie clothing, McCain being the worst of the lot, there are a number of them who still speak for the people that has elected them. Larry Craig is no hardcore right winger but he has voted the way the vast majority of Idahoans expect him to.

 

I see a heck of a lot of complaints here about elected officials and very little action to do anything about it. It's very easy to complain but considerably more difficult to get off your butt and do something. Pessimism is rampant all over this forum.

 

Quit your bitchin or organize some kind of effort and put forth a solution. Where do you live? What exactly are you doing besides sitting at your 'puter and complaining? I think all politicians are a pain in the arse nowadays, we the people have let this happen, but Republicans certainly have closer ideals to my own than the alternatives. Libertarian philosophy is no more than a utopian dream in America anymore. Clintoon was undoubtedly the worse thing to have happen to this country in our lifetimes. Just getting back to Reagon's America is going to take decades I'm afraid. The solution is to first kill off the Dems, and it certainly looks like they are doing a double somersault with a half gainer and a jack knife into the DUmpster lately, then make the moderates the left wing and do the same to them.

 

Then we will have a two party system with Libs and Pubs, which is a helluva a lot closer to what the Founding Fathers had envisioned. Only then can we hope to have the Constitution interpreted literally again and regain what the politicians have removed from us since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.

 

Problems solved! Shouldn't take more than another 100 years.

[ConservativeTerrapin]

The nazi's were actually quite liberal. They believed in gun control, business regulation, protected classes, economic restriction, tariffs. After all, the other name for the nazi party was the german workers socialist union.

[Killborn]

Contorversial statement, but probably not a troll. Stand down reccommended.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Nothing Rove said was or will be used by Al Jazeera to promote hatred towards the United States and coalition troops.

. . . and the analogies used by Santorum and Novak were clear hyperbole not intended to be taken literally.

To suggest, as Jacoby does here, equivalence between patent hyperbole on the one hand, and Durbin's blood libel of the Americans guarding and commanding Gitmo on the other, is to trivialize all argument.