I got this in the mail from Blogs for Bush:

Chairman Calls on Democrat Candidates to Repudiate Ad Comparing Bush to Hitler

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today called on the nine Democrat presidential candidates to repudiate an ad posted on the Moveon.org website comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.

GILLESPIE: If you look at some of these outside groups that are coming together to defeat the president, they will spend over $1 million a day next year to defeat him. One of those groups is a group called MoveOn.org, a group that, after September 11th, said we shouldn't respond in a military fashion, that we should just take diplomatic means to address this tragic occurrence and this terrorist strike. But they have been running an ad selection campaign on their Web site, and one of the ads that was submitted that they considered viable for airing -- with $7 million, by the way, in funds that we don't know where it comes from, but we know they've said they'd spend $7 million to air the ad that they've settled on -- one of them morphed President Bush into Adolf Hitler. That's the kind of tactics we're seeing on the left today in support of these Democratic presidential candidates.

The transcript, edited by me for clarity, follows:

GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
SUBTITLE: We have taken new measures to protect our homeland,

GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
SUBTITLE: I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator,

GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
SUBTITLE: God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them,

GRAPHIC: Pictures of President Bush
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
SUBTITLE: and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

SUBTITLE: SOUND FAMILIAR?
BACKGROUND: Cheering German Crowd

This is disgusting. At some level, it also insults the roughly 13 million Jews, gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and other assorted victims of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei for political purpose. Is it really the act of a reasonable man to compare Adolf Hitler with George W. Bush? Is it really reasonable to compare the Final Solution against innocents to the capture and confinement of enemy combat personnel? Sorry, but I don't see any equivalence between Anne Frank and John Walker Lindh.

Reasonable men can perhaps disagree over the question of Iraq. Reasonable men should probably not disagree over the question of the Afghanistan operation. There may be areas of legitimate discussion for Afghanistan, but I would want any party who chose to dissent from the attack to be very, very focused in these legitimate areas, or else I'd write them off as being neither serious nor reasonable, and thus not part of the discussion.

I am, of course, aware of the long-standing tradition of comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. It's my litmus test for reasonability. Why am I so precipitous with this? Because it's patently ridiculous to compare Hitler to Bush. Adolf Hitler slaughtered a bunch of "undesirables" because they had the rotten luck to be classified Ãœntermenschen in a system where only the Herrenvolk was allowed to survive.

I ask the men of moveon.org the following questions: Where are the concentration camps? Where is Kristallnacht Amerika, wherein Arabs are dragged from their homes, their businesses, and off the street for murder? Where are the Nuremberg Laws? In Hitler's Germany, such an attack as occurred on 11 September 2001 would have probably led the SA or the SS into the streets at the head of mobs to destroy every single synagogue that they could get their hands on.

Where were the mobs of Americans led by Homeland Security men storming their local mosques and murdering Islamics? Where was the forced "resettlement" of Arabs?

The simple answer is the accurate one: Nowhere. There isn't anything like that in this country. There is absolutely no support for a comparison that equates Adolf Hitler with George W. Bush. Hitler used false reports of a Polish attack on a German radio station in Gliewitz to bolster support for a German assault on Poland. This was false. It was staged by German troops, according to generally accepted sources. On the contrary, nobody reasonable appears to doubt that around three thousand people lost their lives in Virginia (you bastards, this isn't over yet!) Pennsylvania, and New York. Unlike the radio station (or even the Reichstag fire), an external party (namely al-Qaeda) has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Adolf Hitler told Jews that they were responsible for what he did to them. George W. Bush calls for the protection of Arabs and goes out of his to bend over backwards in support of Islam. Yeah, they're just alike.

Moreover, al-Qaeda has initiated several strikes against American targets before. The dead from the USS Cole come immediately to mind. There does not appear to have been a similar National Socialist effort to create a unified "Jewish conspiracy front", other than for Hitler to sit around and mouth about how the Jews had it in for the people of Germany. There wasn't a Zionist radio station which functioned as a virtual propaganda arm of a well-funded, world-spanning militant group led by a rabbi, unlike a wee little going concern named al-Jazeera.

The most odious thing in the ad is the attempt to link Adolf Hitler to the Christian faith of George W. Bush. The purportedly Christianity of Hitler is a useful tool for secularists and weak-kneed "Christians in name only" who are readily eager to brickbat the two-thousand year old faith in exchange for platitudes from the cultural left. Unfortunately, just like the rest of this ad, there are factual problems of truth. Adolf Hitler didn't like Christians. He didn't like the concept of a Savior who wasn't out to layeth the smack down and brutally crush all who stood against him. Hitler had no use for Christians, and perhaps had them penciled in as 'next' after the Jews had been handled. Some students at Rutgers Law took note of this; a Dave Shiflett column goes into more detail.

I've seen this ad, and the transcript seems to be a true record thereof. If indeed moveon.org is running this ad---a quick view of their site didn't show it---then this is additional evidence that they are unreasonable, and should not be considered a part of the national discussion of politics. Simply put, they don't belong at the adults' table. This is irrational and immature behavior. It is another example of the sort of behavior that I wrote about earlier in I Don't Want Dean---an entry I again recommend for reading---and briefly in Matrix News of Varying Quality. I don't believe in rational discussion with irrational and unreasonable fanatics. Therefore, I don't believe in meaningful engagement with the men of moveon.org. Their protests will not be heard, and their arguments have no weight.

These are the men who back Howard Dean the strongest. They propel him, they support him, and they are unequivocally dedicated to Dean. For shame, moveon.org, for shame. And shame on you, Howard Dean. You embarrass the State of Vermont with your acceptance of their support.

Those wishing to view this ad may download from the RNC website/press release set up to do so. The direct link is here.

UPDATE: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a press release on the subject; they're not happy with moveon either. View it here.

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