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Republicans and Communists
Reading many of the Republican comments on the Rove/Plame issue reminds me of the reaction of American Communists after learning of the pact Stalin signed with Hitler. The Communists went from lock step denunciations of the Nazis to lock step praise of them as peace loving. (They changed again when Hitler doublecrossed Stalin.)
We see the same kind of dishonest behavior from people having the temerity to call themselves 'conservatives" though all they seem to want to conserve is their own power. They went from universal condemnation of the leaker to universal condemnation of those the leaker attacked, and the ONLY change in the known facts of the matter was who the leaker likely was. The similarities between the two are amazing. Nothing more completely exposes the vacuousness of their babble about patriotism and values.
Today's Republican operatives and allies offer a good study of the totalitarian mentality trying to take over a democracy. If dead communists reincarnated, they must have done so as members of the GOP.
- Exactly! by Sheldon Richman (July 15, 2005 at 8:09 AM)
- Re: Exactly! by David Timothy Beito (July 15, 2005 at 10:25 AM)
- Re: Exactly! by Sheldon Richman (July 15, 2005 at 11:22 AM)
- Re: Exactly! by Sheldon Richman (July 15, 2005 at 11:28 AM)
- Light of Reason Discusses Your Blog by David Timothy Beito (July 15, 2005 at 4:34 PM)
- Re: Exactly! by Sheldon Richman (July 15, 2005 at 11:28 AM)
- Ideology as a Mask for Real Motives by William Marina (July 15, 2005 at 10:03 AM)
- Re: Ideology as a Mask for Real Motives by Gus diZerega (July 15, 2005 at 12:44 PM)
- The flip side by Gary McGath (July 15, 2005 at 2:17 PM)
- Re: The flip side by Gus diZerega (July 15, 2005 at 3:22 PM)
- The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by William J. Stepp (July 16, 2005 at 6:42 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by Gus diZerega (July 17, 2005 at 12:39 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by William J. Stepp (July 17, 2005 at 6:36 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by William J. Stepp (July 17, 2005 at 7:44 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by Gus diZerega (July 17, 2005 at 8:00 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by William J. Stepp (July 17, 2005 at 7:44 PM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by Charles Johnson (July 19, 2005 at 12:36 AM)
- Re: The Bottom Line on Valerie Plame by Gus diZerega (July 19, 2005 at 1:13 PM)
- Rove Didn't Do What His Critics Say by William J. Stepp (July 18, 2005 at 6:44 AM)
- Re: Rove Didn't Do What His Critics Say by Gus diZerega (July 18, 2005 at 11:13 AM)
- Re: Rove Didn't Do What His Critics Say by Steven Horwitz (July 18, 2005 at 12:35 PM)
- Re: Rove Didn't Do What His Critics Say by Gus diZerega (July 18, 2005 at 1:00 PM)
- Re: Rove Didn't Do What His Critics Say by Steven Horwitz (July 18, 2005 at 12:35 PM)
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