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What's so bad about American politicians comparing each other to Osama and the Taliban? Well, most American politicians aren't mass murderers. This kind of rhetoric blunts the reality of jihad. From AP:
Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson has apologized for remarks at a campaign rally in which he compared a segment of the Republican Party to the Taliban.At a get-out-the-vote rally in Sioux Falls for Democratic House candidate Stephanie Herseth, Johnson told the crowd that Herseth will win a June 1 special election against Republican Larry Diedrich. "And how sweet it's going to be on June 2 when the Taliban wing of the Republican Party finds out what's happened in South Dakota," Johnson said at the Sunday event.
The second-term senator issued an apology Tuesday, saying "I am proud of the support I have enjoyed from Republicans across South Dakota. In a state like ours, you have to be able to reach across party lines to find consensus. If any Republicans were offended, I apologize."
Republicans were outraged by the remarks, with state GOP chairman Randy Frederick describing the statement as "repulsive" and "an attack on the character of all Republicans in South Dakota."
"To have someone of Sen. Tim Johnson's stature talking about my supporters as being terrorists is somewhat flabbergasting," Diedrich said.
Johnson said the remarks were directed at an outside group that attacked the senator's patriotism and "compared me to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden" in a television ad during his 2002 Senate campaign.
This reminds me of an old rule on the internet known as "Godwin's law". Godwin's law states that the first person in a debate to call his oponet a Nazi (Or the like) has lost, after all at that point you have more or less proven that you have nothing of intelgence to say, so you are just calling names.
We call it fear mongering.
The liberals in canada are doing it now.
The last liberal add I seen today says if you vote for a conservative, they will destroy canada.
I'd like to know how.
What it really means is If you vote for a government that doesn't take taxpayers money and spend it on royal tours, you will destroy the Liberal party, and their waste of your money in scandals, and fovoritizm
Oh, and lets not forget, If you vote liberal, paul martins can-west shipping company will get new ships built by taxpayers,
paul martin fools you, remember he flies no canadian flags on his fleet, and has insulted the Austrailians for what his company has done.
he's no better than Cretien, and his ties to the french oil companies, hich his daughter is married to.
lets not forget who sits in the office next to martin, his dear old freind maurice Strong, who is involved heavy in the UN, who 20 years ago cried global cooling, but now cries global warming, although he made good money in the oil business.
Corruption in the Liberal party runs deep. Bush knows these things. George's father kicked maurice Strong out in his day.
I have long thought that an apology that includes the word "if" is no apology at all. "If I offended any Republicans" by comparing them to one of the nastiest regimes to ever walk the earth: how could anyone, regardless of party, not be offended at being compared to those evil bastards. Every Republican in South Dakota, especially the women, should make sure that no Democrat this idiot endorses ever gets elected again.
So, republicans can call Johnson Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, and republicans in Georgia can morph the picture of Max Cleland into Saddam and Osama, and con-reps in general constantly accuse lib'ruls of aiding terrorists. BUT if a democract refers to the Taliban Wing of the GOP, it suddenly a big deal? Heaven forbid! Oh, the humanity! All together, children: Waaaaah!
Spare me your phony indignation.
Are the GOP and the Taliban similar? Let's see:
The Taliban wants God's law in our schools and courts. They want feminists and minorities to shut the hell up. They loooove capital punishment. They love guns. They don't believe in animal rights. They use religion to scare children (and childish adults.) They hate Clinton. They hate sissies, liberals, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, feminists, and secularism. They hate commies, socialists, humanists and atheists.
Whoa... stop me when this starts to sound familiar.... if the shoe fits, wear it.
How about we discuss the Timothy McVeigh wing of the GOP? You guys are a joke. You're JUST LIKE Muslim apologists. You always say "it has nothing to do with his politics..." when someone like Eric Rudolph, Tim McVeigh, etc. snap and start killing the "enemy" as defined by Rush, O'Reilly, etc. That is the SAME line of crap given by the Jihadi disseblers: "they (Muslim Jihadis) are not REAL muslims... they don't understand that Jihad means 'personal struggle,' it's not religious it's cultural, blah blah blah."
I can't believe Robert Spencer lets this forum degenerate into freerepublic.com lite. What a shame. We should be talking about how to thwart the global Jihad, and some here can only think about whining about lib'ruls and democrats.
animal rights? such as the right to remain delicious?
what an idiot. he needs to learn more about islam.
KeithJoy:
I'm all ears and ready to take action. What should we do today, tomorrow, next month to thwart the global jihad?
I'm being serious.