Our paleoliberal colleagues at Daily Kos is comparing the GOP to the Taliban:
Last night I wrote "How the Islamic crazies are like the Right" to hammer home how fundamentalist Islam has more in common with the radical religious right, the American Taliban, than it does with the American Left.
This is a key point-- it was easier for the Right to tie the American Left with our previous boogeyman, the communists, since we technically were nearer to the extreme left than where conservatives.
But today, things look quite different.
This whole deal was begun by our very own Tim Johnson, in his "Taliban Republicans" comment:
At a Sioux Falls get-out-the-vote rally for Democratic House candidate Stephanie Herseth, the senator had told the crowd Herseth will win the special U.S. House election June 1. "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 on Sunday.
All these references to the other side being a "Taliban", a "bin Laden supporter," a "Nazi" or "fascist" is, quite honestly, getting repulsive. You have numerous politicians across the entire political spectrum using these short-sighted statements (Sen. Johnson and Daily Kos and the "Republican Taliban"; Sen. Durbin (D) and his Nazi references; Sen. Santorum (R) and his Nazi references; references to Republicans being a fascists; references to Democrats being Communists; just to name a few). The list, sadly, can go on and on, but that's all I can think up in fifteen minutes. Can the Republicans and Democrats please get past these mindless accusations and concentrate on real debate?
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