Res Ipsa Loquitur

To make Republicans look strange and frightening in this manner, Democrats don't need to go out and ask leading questions of the weirdest people they can find on the opposing party -- all they need to do is slip in a tape when the 700 Club comes on and press "record."

No argument here. Actually the 700 Club members are probably weirder. But you have to admit that this whole "Bush = Hitler" thing is absurd....and so was Howard Stern's playing of Dean "Yeeeaaagh" clip to Hitlerian background music or whatever that Mike was telling me about this morning.

There are people on both sides that are being ridiculous. I mean seriously, the only current world figure that you could even conceivably compare to Hitler would be Saddam. And even then I would argue that Stalin would be a more historically accurate comparision.

I will agree -- not admit, since I never disputed it :-) -- that comparing Bush to Hitler based on the evidence I'm aware of would be an extremely strained analogy.

Hitler was a frustrated, incompetent artist with absolute power, which makes him much more frightening and dangerous, in my mind, than a frustrated, incompetent businessman with checked-and-balanced power, like Bush, could ever be.

And Dean was a bit frightening on Monday night -- but in a pretty non-threatening way, really. He was the only person who seem to act spontaneously. He sounded like a frat boy at half-time psyching his team up to win. Of course, on television, enthusiastic, unrehearsed and unfiltered spontaneity is the last thing we expect from our politicians, so it was a bit scary.

Agreed. I've seen more frightening performances by basketball coaches....and Dean's no Bobby Knight. Like you say, it seemed to me to be more of a rah-rah let's go get 'em speech than anything else.

Good Lord Aaron, do you realize we've now agreed about two political things? There's hope for the world yet.

; )