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"What’s wrong with that?”

I have no problem showing the “Dean Scream,” or the “Gore Meltdown,” or any other Democrat in full rant mode.  They can answer for their own behavior.

The problem is that these images are juxtaposed against clips of Hitler (in a very similar mode) from the MoveOn ads.  The excuse given is that “this is what they’re saying about Bush.”

But the underlying messsage is that these Democrats are behaving in a similar manner as “Der Fuhrer.” It’s not even subtle.  And if it’s wrong for the Democrats to make such a comparison, it’s equally wrong for the Republicans to return the favor.

After watching the ad again, I see your point.  I think that the Bush campaign could have gotten the same message across with out the Hitler/Dem imagery shown so closely.

But did the campaign do this on purpose?  Maybe.  Its hard to say.  For the most part I’d say the campaign has been positive for the most part.  Its hard to believe that they’d go so negative so soon.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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