First, the current Republicans are classic fascists, as defined by the original definition of wanting a merger of government and business.

Second, they manipulate the population with the same fascist tools (fatherland = homeland, us v. them, etc.).

The current Repubs have links to old Nazis. Bush's grandpa Prescott actually managed Nazi money on Wall Street during WWII and his portfolio was seized under the Trading With The Enemy Act. The Bush family profited from the dissolution of a Nazi bank post-WWII. The reactionary Republicans like the Dulleses imported Nazis into the U.S. after WWII (Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for one of these CIA-backed programs) and the spawn of some of these Nazis are showing up in the ranks of today's Republicans (try googling: Hans von Spakovsky).

It's curious that George H.W. Bush's use of "New World Order" was a prominent term used by Nazis in WWII.

The current Republican Party is nothing if not the intellectual continuance of Nazism and fascism. There are a few differences. Ultra-reactionary Jewish movements are now included under the umbrella (as they had been originally in Mussolini's fascist pre-war Italy), for ex. But otherwise, we are dealing pretty much with the same thing that people in Europe faced a couple generations back.

Dear Mrs. Rowley,
It has come to my attention that you have placed on your campaign website a doctored photo of me in which my military uniform has been replaced by a Nazi uniform. I demand that you immediately remove from your website that outrageous and disgusting insult to me, my family, and every man and woman who has ever worn a military uniform in defense of our country.

Followed by the stone'em trick.

Actor Alec Baldwin appeared on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and called for Republican Congressman Henry Hyde and his family to be murdered. Baldwin said: "I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together ... would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! ... Shut up! No shut up! I'm not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families."

As Even Lanny Davis has noticed.

And in recent years--with the deadly combination of sanctimony and vitriol displayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage--I held on to the view that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right.

Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony. Here are just a few examples (there are many, many more anyone with a search engine can find) of the type of thing the liberal blog sites have been posting about Joe Lieberman:

• "Ned Lamont and his supporters need to [g]et real busy. Ned needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an AMerican who is NOT beholden to the Israeli Lobby" (by "rim," posted on Huffington Post, July 6, 2006).

• "Joe's on the Senate floor now and he's growing a beard. He has about a weeks growth on his face. . . . I hope he dyes his beard Blood red. It would be so appropriate" (by "ctkeith," posted on Daily Kos, July 11 and 12, 2005).

• On "Lieberman vs. Murtha": "as everybody knows, jews ONLY care about the welfare of other jews; thanks ever so much for reminding everyone of this most salient fact, so that we might better ignore all that jewish propaganda [by Lieberman] about participating in the civil rights movement of the 60s and so on" (by "tomjones," posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).

I don't know if the Internet has increased the national incivility, or if just provides the nasty attacks to a wider audience.

As I noted yesterday, when Democratic leaders and bloggers say nasty things about the troops and the war, they shouldn't be surprised when MoveOn and the NYT comes up with an unacceptable attack ad. Huckabee, who has become kind of a favorite "dark horse" for his commonsense comments, joins them when he comes out with such an out of place and totally unnecessary comment.

And as I noted, such things reminds me of my youth when southern politicians would claim black men wanted to attack white women, and then try to act shocked when the white yahoos would attack blacks.

Case in point.

IMHO, the only place where a real bona fide Hippie may yet exist is in the studio apartment he shares with the Sasquatch. I haven't seen any hippies since the early 1970's. Then again, the Washington DC area is not exactly conducive to the supposed natural environment of this (IMHO, extinct) species.

I guess that hippies who smoke dope, grow their hair long and maybe even make crank in their bathtubs don't consider themselves hippies.

Or maybe hippie-bashing works because the drug-induced underclass in rural America has been grafted onto the myth of the Original Hippie.

Well, for the record, "dirty" may well be what some may choose to infer from his comment but he certainly didn't say that, what he actually did say was "old hippies."

See a pattern there, Nazi fanboy?

Yes, I do.

And the pattern clearly indicates that you don't know what it is you are talking about.

Want some examples of those you didn't list???

Reid declares war lost.

Kerry calls soldiers stupid.

Durbin calls troops Nazis (I know that one must be special to you.)

Vets spit on by DemoLeftie demonstrators

Huckabee's line was a laugh line, a deliberate exaggeration. He was smiling as he said it, and he got an appreciative laugh from the crowd. Huckabee considers himself an "old hippy," and he'll quickly add to that that he used to be a "fat old hippy" before he slimmed down.

The man may be an ordained Baptist minister, but he also plays a mean bass guitar — and has done so in public, this year, at campaign functions.

"You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said.

ABC News

There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration's policies in Iraq.

Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.

Link to NYTimes

It is a small point since by the act of spitting at US Army Cpl Sparling, the attempt to spit on him was clear. However, the sweet lovely person who did so could not even do that. Thank God they weren't in the military with a weapon.

Durbin compared them to Nazis. His speech.

If you are a baseball player and I compare you to Mickey Mantle, that is a compliment.

If you are a soldier and I compare you to a Nazi, that is a horrible insult.

Durbin later made a half hearted and unacceptable apology.

Finally, the war is not lost. Although many on the Left's commitment to loosing it has become plainer day by day.

June 07, 2007 --
Some opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number of them are simply predicting it, while others advocate measures that would make it more likely.

Link

And the latest figures show a sharp decrease in military and civilian deaths.

While I do not "like" George Bush and his social policies, I think he is 110% correct in that we are engaged in a global war on terror.....

Sounds amost like your take on McCarthy. Many germans felt the same about Hitler and the Jews. They were a problem, Hitler was right, the methods were a bit harsh though.