The lunatic fringe of the Democrat party, including Al Gore last week, have been running around directly or indirectly* saying that Bush = Hitler.

The Republicans put together a video showing the Democrats in full rant, including where they make the claim that Bush = Hitler in the clearly labeled Moveon.org excerpts.

And you think that's the Republicans' fault?

What color is the sky on your planet?

It's like the miniblowup last week when Senator Leahy had loudly called Dick Cheney corrupt, then Cheney told him to go f*** himself. The Democrats whinned that Cheney's rebuke was out of order. They expect to be able to go around calling others corrupt and never have anyone complain about it. What a bunch of sniveling whinners!

*Gore's "brown shirts" crack last week was an allusion to the Nazis. After all, who were the brown shirts? They were the SA (Sturm Abteilung), a group of thugs who helped Hitler come to power before being wiped out in the "Night of Long Knives."

On April 1, 1933, the Nazis organized a boycott of Jewish business. The SA stood in front of Jewish businesses and intimidated anyone attempting to enter. The next week Jews were removed from civil service positions. With the year, “non-Aryans” — anyone with one Jewish parent or grandparent — were removed from practicing professions like law, banking, medicine, and journalism.

Goebbels, his Minister of Propaganda, gave out radios to the populace and used the mass media to misinform German citizenry. All non-Nazi organizations were banned. Church youth groups, farmers’ unions, labor unions, all were made into affiliates of the Nazi Party. The Hitler Youth, organizations for children, practiced extreme anti-Semitism and a highly militaristic regimen. Gender segregated, the young girls were taught to express their Teutonic virtue in motherhood, and to give Greater Germany children. The boys played military games, learned map reading, glider training, and field maneuvers. Every organization, from miners to mothers, held Hitler in cult-like fascination. His memoir from prison after the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Mein Kampf (My Struggle,) sold thousands of copies.

In 1934, the real moves towards the future of Germany began. Thousands of Nazis belonged to the Sturmarbeitelung (SA - Storm Troopers). Essentially street thugs in brown shirts, the SA had carried Hitler into the Chancellery with their fists, intimidating or killing his enemies. Led by Ernst Röhm, the SA was powerful enough to displace Hitler if they so desired, and thus became a threat. Also, Hitler could never gain control of the Army until he eliminated the SA as a threat to the thoroughly Prussian Officer corps. On June 30, 1934, during the “Night of Long Knives,” Röhm and several other SA leaders were summoned to a villa outside Berlin, where they were arrested. Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, envious of Röhm’s intimacy with Hitler, accused him of being a homosexual. He was taken to prison, where he was beaten and told to confess. When he would not, he was offered a pistol, when he did not commit suicide, the door was thrown open and he died in hail of gunfire.

Democrats. In your guts, you know they're nuts. And whinners.